Smart Baby Cradle System using IoT

The current number of working mothers has greatly increased.Subsequently, baby care has become a daily challenge for many families.Thus, most parents send their babies to their grandparent's house or to baby care houses.However, the parents cannot continuously monitor their baby's conditions either in normal or abnormal situations.Therefore, the Smart Baby Cradle System is proposed as an efficient and low-cost IoT-based system for monitoring in real time.The proposed system exploits sensors to monitor the baby's vital parameters, such as wetness detection, ambient temperature, and crying.A prototype of the proposed baby cradle has been designed using Arduino UNO micro controller and other sensors such as water sensor, mic sensor, DHT11 sensor.The model also consists of a servo motor, speaker and a fan.The system architecture consists of a baby cradle that will automatically swing using a motor when the baby cries, detects wetness and reads the decibels of baby cry.Temperature around the cradle can be monitored.The Blynk application is used to know the readings of temperature, wetness and cry of the baby.It also provides access to play music and operate fan for the baby.The proposed system prototype is fabricated and tested to prove its effectiveness in terms of cost and simplicity and to ensure safe operation to enable the baby-parenting anywhere and anytime.