Description: Field of Invention
The present invention relates for, cradle monitoring is needed continuously by a person when the baby is in cradle. Now a days, with the busy schedule routines manpower to monitor baby and cradle is becoming a tougher task. As it is not safe for child to leave unattended, hence automated cradle is implemented.

The Objectives of this Invention
The purpose of the invention is centered around a plan to develop a IOT based Smart baby cradle that would assist the Parents with monitoring and keeping an eye on their infants regardless of whether they are at home or at work and can identify each activity from inaccessible corner of the world. Due to today's busy scenario of life, the concept of smart baby monitoring system has been implemented by using various devices so that parent or any responsible person can have an eye on the baby by implanting the design of cradle system which give us the feasibility of safety and care of child that can stream live video and sound using different sensors and also displaying temperature condition and giving alert of wet and dry condition of the infant.
Background of the Invention
A number of devices have been developed for monitoring the condition of a baby in a cradle. Among such devices, perhaps the best known for distressed care is a Smart Cradle Baby Monitoring System which carefully monitors the condition of the infant in the cradle and alerts a message to the parent regarding the condition of the baby like temperature, humidity, crying, wet and dry situations etc.
In (KR2015/101705865B1), an accelerating sensor for sensing an infant's mobility is included in the innovation, which pertains to a newborn welfare system. A control module for processing motion data collected by the accelerometer sensor on newborns and young kids in order to identify if they have fallen; As well as a communication module for sending the controller device's analytical information to a remote server. In (US2003/7482935B2), present application discloses a baby health monitoring device comprising a skin temperature sensor connected to a microprocessor for mathematically converting the sensed temperature to corrected skin temperature; a movement sensor; a display screen for indicating condition of baby; and a means for communicating with a computer. The same type of monitoring is invented in (US2016/0287073A1).

However, one system, depicted by (Kumar et.al [2018]) designed a Smart Baby Cradle Using Arduino and IoT which is capable of monitoring infant. In this connection, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2011-0131618 is known as a conventional patent document. Another system was introduced by (W. A. Jabbar et.al [2019], IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 93791–93805), Sensors are used in the developed framework to track the baby's physiological parameters, such as room temperature, hydration, even weeping. Parents can also use an external web camera to check their babies' health and use the MQTT server to turn on the lullaby toy on the baby cradle to entertain them. The suggested system prototype is built and evaluated to demonstrate its usefulness in terms of the cost and convenience, as well as to assure safety and reliability, allowing newborn to take place about anything at any times over the networking.
In (Kavitha et al [2019], 2019 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Control, Environment, Computing & Communication Engineering (ICATIECE), pp-136-139), presents a survey of the various sensors and actuators used in the Smart Cradle implementation. In (Patil et al [2018], 2018 International Conference on Smart City and Emerging Technology (ICSCET), pp. 1-5), proposed design throughout this smart cradle prototype would enables the bassinet to seamlessly interface with a smartphone, most likely a Smartphone or tablet. All of the electronics and physical devices will be assembled using an embedded system. If any action occurs, such as urinating or the baby getting up from a deep sleep, an SMS will be sent to the family's phone.
The primary goal of this invention is to assist the Parents with monitoring and keeping an eye on their infants regardless of whether they are at home or at work and can identify each activity from inaccessible corner of the world.
Summary of the Invention
IoT based smart cradle system monitors whether baby is sleeping and also checks the room temperature condition is favorable for baby or not. Parents can check their babies from another room at home for short range communication with Wi-Fi. Moreover, the system can send notifications to the parents in some abnormal condition identification such as high temperature and severe baby crying. This allows parents to observe their babies and perform the necessary.
Detailed Description of the Invention
S.ODI is a multi-utility board with a dual microcontroller that works on the parallel mechanism with Wi-Fi and microcontroller. There are some necessary parameters for the infant that needs to be monitored on daily basis from time to time. Such parameters are body temperature, gas sensor, and pulse rate that are measured using sensors. A microphone module is attached to the cradle that gives the necessary indication of the baby, whether he/ she is crying or not. With this, the reason for the baby’s crying is temperature, pulse rate difference, nature calls, or the baby’s hunger can be identified. The sensor’s readings will be processed by the microcontroller and the recorded data is transmitted using the Blynk channel via a Wi-Fi module. The sensor readings will be monitored, and the necessary actions will be processed according to the baby’s condition. As per the readings, if the temperature is high and the baby is crying, the heater placed under the cradle provides sufficient heat for the baby to comfort. In the same way, when the temperature is too high, a portable fan is arranged on the top side of the cradle, which is operated with levels of speed. Along with this, if the baby cries, the attached music plays the songs, and that will be managed by the microcontroller or outer source. The cradle is controlled using a servo motor that makes the cradle swing whenever the baby cries. This will be detected using a microphone, and the controlling of the cradle will be done through the Blynk channel.
Blynk is a coding interface that works in the backend of the S.ODI, and it shows all the readings and statuses of the sensors and other interfaces (Heater, Fan, and Music System). All the sensors are connected, and their readings are measured according to the flow chart. A camera is interfaced with the raspberry pi 0 and is placed on the cradle in a position that covers the whole baby’s posture and movement. Through this, the baby's sleeping posture and baby's daily activity in the mobile application through Motion Eye-OS can be monitored. Motion Eye-OS is an interface that helps to capture camera visualization. This whole continuous recording and monitoring help to check the baby’s condition and health care up to date and it is user-friendly, so that it will be easier for anyone to understand the Infant’s comfort and health conditions.
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Figure 1, the architecture of the proposed Smart Cradle System for Baby Monitoring using IoT. , Claims: The scope of the invention is defined by the following claims:
Claim:
1. A system/method for smart cradle system for baby monitoring using IoT, said system/method comprising the steps of:
a) The cradle (1) has different sensors devices like temperature, pulse, sound, gas to read the status of new born baby from the cradle.
b) The sensors module (2) read the status from the cradle and sends information to the S.ODI microcontroller (3).
c) From this controller, the corresponding states are stored on the cloud (4), and then states of the cradle baby is managed from the parent mobile (5).
d) After that, based on the states, the parent sends control to switch on the heater, fans, motor, and sounds (6), the entire system can control using the camera (7) installed on Raspberry PI OS.
2. As mentioned in claim 1, the S.ODI microcontroller board is the main firmware of the project, which will receive the data from sensors and process those data and control the output, and as well send the required data to parents and doctor to alert them.
3. As per claim 1, the dampness of the baby will check by using humidity sensor DHT11, the temperature of the baby will read by the temperature sensor DS18b120 and sends the data to the microcontroller.
4. As mentioned in claim 1, by using different sensors of the firmware the baby condition is monitored, whether the baby is crying or not will be sensed by the microphone module, if the baby was crying then an alert message will be sent to the parent.
5. As per claim 1, the temperature sensor will read the temperature of the baby and if it is greater than 98.6oF then an alert message will send to the parent.
6. As per claim 1, the pulse sensor will read the pulse rate of the baby and if it is less than 160bpm then an alert will send to the parent that the pulse rate of the baby is abnormal.