Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 39 | Collective Child Tracking System (CCTS) The Lextech Senior Design Most Marketable Project Award |
Ellery Tomaszkiewicz Mark Hafter Omar Joya |
Jose Sanchez Vicarte | design_document0.pdf final_paper0.pdf presentation0.pptx proposal0.pdf |
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| Problem: There is a large concern for safety in today's society, especially for young children. For example, parents want to know where their child is at all times and if they are safe. What about when children are outside the controlled environment of a classroom or day-care center? Teachers, counselors, and adult supervisors constantly worry about ensuring the safety of groups of children when on an excursion or field trip and could easily become distracted or miss a single child slipping away from the group. Solution: We propose a reusable tracking wristband for children that will allow a teacher or administrator to easily keep track of kids during an off-site field trip or excursion. The bands would be easy to wear and remove (but not easily removed by small children), and wouldn’t need to be paired with a smartphone as children don't typically carry phones. An alert will be sent to the supervisor when a child wanders out of range, and an associated location will be shown on the supervisor’s mobile device. We plan to build this device with the use of GSM communication and the Google Maps Geolocation API. We posted this as an idea 1 week ago https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=14194 and received favorable responses. In addition, we took the idea to office hours and spent time with the TAs formalizing the idea and ensuring that our idea would be original and fulfilling a need. In addition, we researched products on the market including a product that has just been announced to be sure our idea was novel, original, and provides utility. Our idea is not to build a simple child tracker, or a Bluetooth range-finding system. We intend our project to solve the problem of tracking groups of children and not just a few. (The only mass-market tracker that addresses the multiple-children need is a Bluetooth only device). Our project will also explicitly exclude GPS technology and focus on GSM location as opposed to triangulation using an antenna array. Both the friend finder of 2012 and the child tracker of 2006 do not address the multiple children need, and do not use a tracking technology that is usable across distances worldwide. Technology/Components: -Logic Controller -Battery/Power System -Communication Modules: ------A central transmitter will track if wristband(s) are still in range. ------SIM800c GSM modem on the wristband will send an SMS alert and raw cell tower info to the supervisor’s phone once the central transmitter no longer detects it in range. https://www.elecrow.com/download/SIM800C_Hardware_Design_V1.02.pdf ------The supervisor’s phone will use the raw cell tower info with Google Maps Geolocation API to pinpoint the child’s location. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro Group Members: Mark Hafter - hafter1 Omar Joya - joya2 Ellery Tomaszkiewicz - tmszkwc2 |
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