REAL TIME CHILD MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON RASPBERRY PI AND BEACON TECHNOLOGY USING ANDROID APP.

This paper proposes a secure child monitoring system that can be accessed online through the website with authorized parties. It uses Raspberry Pi microcomputer and a Pi camera in order to capture real time video so as to develop a web based system where Python and PHP software are used. This system provides security and safety in monitoring their children remotely. A Bluetooth based iBeacon technology with Android app is developed to detect the current floor position of the children in the daycare. iBeacon technology is based on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Received Signal Strength (RSS) . Smartphone Application for interacting with the beacons is developed for Android device. It allows the user to determine the distance between the child and individual beacon.

This paper proposes a secure child monitoring system that can be accessed online through the website with authorized parties. It uses Raspberry Pi microcomputer and a Pi camera in order to capture real time video so as to develop a web based system where Python and PHP software are used. This system provides security and safety in monitoring their children remotely. A Bluetooth based iBeacon technology with Android app is developed to detect the current floor position of the children in the daycare. iBeacon technology is based on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Received Signal Strength (RSS) . Smartphone Application for interacting with the beacons is developed for Android device. It allows the user to determine the distance between the child and individual beacon.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Introduction:-
The system is designed for assisting parents in monitoring their children who work away from the childcare, nowadays most of the parents are working and they cannot be with their child all the time, hence majority of parents kept their children in daycare. Daycare or childcare is a place with more population of children. In order to ensure the security of child in childcare security cameras were installed in childcare. Parents need to monitor their children because children nowadays are having many threats. In this proposed system we are building a child monitoring system that can be accessed online through website with authentication feature and using Bluetooth iBeacon technology with android app is used to track the current floor position of children in daycare. This paper deals with the design and development of a web-based child monitoring system with real time features. iBeacon works on received signal strength based localization method. Smart phone application allows the user to calculate the distance from any individual beacon.
The purpose of this work is to build a real time child monitoring system based on raspberry pi microcomputer and iBeacon technology using Android App, the system can be accessed online through the website by authorized parties using login id and password. The system is build to assist parents in taking care of their child remotely and reduce child abuse in wide extent. iBeacons are low powered, low cost radio transmitters that notifies nearby devices of their presence and can be used by android OS.

Int. J. Adv. Res. 6(3), 1410-1416
Related Work:-OkkyPermatasari, SitiUmmiMasruroh and Arini MT introduced a prototype of child monitoring system using motion and authentication with Raspberry Pi [1].This project usesRaspberry Pi with web camera in order to monitor the children with real time video. A web camera is connected to the raspberry pi to capture video and images. This monitoring system helps parents in monitoring their child remotely and provide security and safety against child abuse. The major advantage of this project includes real time monitoring and online access of the video. In conclusion this system is a very useful tool for child monitoring and this will protect child and avoid unnecessary worries about child.
M.Naveenkrishna, Dr.S.Jayanthy 2 introduced Beagle Bone Black webcam server for security [2]. This project is based on ARM-Cortex-A8 processor and Linux operating system, It consist of Beagle bone black ( low cost expandable computer launched by Texas instrument ) with Linux operating system(Angstrom) interfaced with webcam. serves the files that form Web pages to Web users. A web server can be deployed in to a device which can be accessed remotely from a web server; this embedded system can serve the web documents on request by a client from other system. The client can access the web server by proper authentication. This displays the webpage forms like home, video, upload, setting and about. The server consists of a power supply board, Beagle Bone Black, webcam and HDMI monitor. In this project the video streaming media using Beagle Bone Black computer is implemented and video is saved in the server and the client can access or download the video using client with proper authentication and id, and this system provides a way to upload videos by client.
Proposed System:-An admin of a childcare has the authorization to maintain the childcare by keep track the list of all children, status etc.., and their history to give a pleasant environment. In this proposed system the childcare admin facilitate a way to monitor child remotely by online through real time video surveillance, this system can be accessed online through the website with authentication feature. The system architecture consist of following blocks, the first part of this project is raspberry pi and camera which is the heart of the project. Any version of raspberry pi will work excepting Pi3 model with provision of Wi-Fi. The Pi camera, a small circuit board is connecting to Raspberry Pi bus connector. The second part contains an iBeacon device with android app to detect the current floor position of the children in the childcare. The Beacon device works on received signal strength based localization method and with Smartphone application by which the user can determine the exact distance from individual beacon.   The standard beacon consists of an UUID, a Major and a Minor value, 1. UUID: unique ID to distinguish the iBeacon from one another. 2. Major id: used to specify a specific iBeacon in a group. 3. Minor id: used to group related sets of iBeacon.

Smartphone Application:-
The application is developed for interacting Beacon devices with android mobile phones. This mobile OS allows users to develop and can be downloaded onto other phones without the need of an official app store, which allows users to check out distance from any individual beacon.
This android app is intended for determining the current location of the user by using location algorithm, which will then send location, user id to the server, this process will be repeatedly done for a certain time interval to keep the track of child in the daycare or this can be developed at home. This application is developed for android smart phones using android studio. User module:-After registration and login process user module can view the various events updated by admin based on his current location. Also user will get a graphical representation of his location in smart phone.

Results:-
Thus we successfully developed real time child monitoring system based on Raspberry pi and iBeacon using android App to help parents in monitoring their child remotely. This is a very useful system to track the location of the child using iBeacon and android app. The experimental results shows the system works successfully and results of the proposed system is shown below.

Conclusions:-
Thus this project developed a real time Child Monitoring System with Raspberry Pi and iBeacon device to monitor child and can be accessed online through website. Definitely this system will help parents in monitoring their child remotely and provide children safety against child abuse occurs around world widely. This design is secured from unauthorized parties by proper login id and password. An important feature of this project is the current floor location of the child using iBeacon.