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 AUTOMATION IN BABY CRADLE BED
P.B. Patel1, S. Ticku2 and S. Darunde3
1,2,3
Department of Instrumentation and control, Dr. D.Y. PATIL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,(INDIA)

ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION

The customary Automatic child cradle frameworks Generally, the baby cradle is used for to make sleep
are excessively lavish and they additionally don't and soothe to baby. For example guardian have to
offer much usefulness. Baby cuddle bed / cuddle nest take care of their child till as they asleep. However,
is a concept originated in Sweden. Baby cuddle bed conventional cradle does not electronically equipped
makes a cozy sleeping place for the baby and protects such like battery or adapter to automate the cradle
baby at night because of stable bumper. We intends automatically. In Addition to that, these kind of
to help those moms who are excessively occupied and conventional cradle is used in villages areas or non-
don't have a cleaning specialist or sitter to deal with developed cities due to its low prices. But the
their infants. This paper portrays the configuration of problem of this kind of designated cradle is that you
a programmed cradle which fundamentally chips need manpower to take care of your child and your
away at location of infant development with the child may not be safe and feel comfortable in the
assistance of a PIR sensor. PIR sensor detects the conventional cradle. Thus, we need automatic cradle
movement of infant. Another important feature is the to take care of child which uses the battery or power
automated swing of the bed by means of voice source. Besides, there are extra features or function is
command which will work through an app. The provided by the newly automatic cradle that is
cuddle will also swing when the baby will start crying beneficial for parents. Because in the present world
inside the bed. The cradle additionally incorporates a people are very busy in their professional life so they
wet sensor which will caution the folks or the do not get ample time to take care of their infants. It
Attendant/sitter for bunk wetting of the infant. It will will be very difficult control the babies and if
help to keep the infant in a hygienic environment. The someone is hiring professional to take care of their
framework is kept negligible as far as fittings as infants. It may increase your expenses from monthly
greatest measure of usefulness of the cradle is expenditure. Moreover, in today, life it is very hard to
performed through Arduino. The cradle is vitality even for the homemakers (mummy) to sit nearby
productive and obliges no physical consideration. their babies and sooth them whenever they feel
uncomfortable. Though, it is automatic this
application is very useful for the nurses in maternity
units of hospital.
Keywords: Automatic cradle, bed-wet sensor,
PIR sensor, swinging of cradle, movement
detection.
 1.1 Objective of the project 1. PIR sensor

1.1.1 To design the development of an intelligent 2. Motor shield

baby care, which has ability for automated swing,
bed-wet condition and body temperature? 3. Arduino UNO

1.1.2 To make a baby cradle is safe and comfortable 4. Bluetooth module

for baby with using PIR sensor to detect the
5. Surface temperature sensor
movement of the baby body as well as bed-wet
condition to keep away baby from hygienic 6. Wet sensor
environment.
7. Power source
1.1.3 Automated swing of cuddle when baby is
crying. 8. MOTOR

1.1.4 To make cradle innovation that is more flexible 9. Activated relay KYO38 MICROPHONE SOUND
and less expensive to market. SENSOR/voice.

1.1.5 User friendly- simple and complete with 2.2 Procedure and purpose of material
instruction
(1) PIR Sensor- The PIR sensor has been used the
1.2 Automated baby cradle bed model HC-SR501 in this project to detect the baby
movement and procured from the local store[5].
The requirement of automatic intelligent baby cradle
is day by day increasing. Especially in metropolitan (ii) Arduino UNO- Arduino UNO is the
cities. The benefits of Automatic cradle are: microcontroller board and the Arduino AT MEGA
328 model has been used in this project and procured
1.2.1 It is very easy to operate and it’s reduces the from the local store. And arduino has been used for
manpower work. The user can adjust the cradle the quickly developed interactive objects, taking
according to their comfort and use. input from variety of switches or sensors and
controlling a variety of outputs such as automate the
1.2.2 User can adjust the time as per need of the
motor and detect the temperature sounds and light
parent’s the how long cradle will move and the
this is called physical computing[6].
parents can finish their household work in that
period. (iii) Motor shield- The arduino motor shield has been
used and it is based on the H-bridge chip L 298 driver
1.2.3 The one of the most benefit of this cradle is we
integrated circuit .this motor shield mount with
can use cradle as a biomedical product in the
arduino and enable the geared motor which help in
hospital. Hospital have neonatal and maternity units.
swing of cradle. This is procured from the local
It will be helpful for the nurses to take care of infant
store[8].
and sooth whenever they need. They do not have to
seat nearby. (v) As the name implies, a “gear motor” or “geared
motor” is a motor having an attached ”gear
2. METHODOLOGY assembly” (or gear train) which enables the gear
motor to provide greater torque at a lower rpm than
2.1 Hardware design and description
the motor alone would be capable of providing. In
The following section describes the hardware that is our experiments however, we didn’t need the gear
being used in the project. assembly. We used a 300 rpm, 12V motor to control
the speed and direction and it is also procured from
A. Hardware Requirements the local market or store.
3. EXPERIMENTATION

3.1 Implementation of the PIR sensor 3.3 Implementation of the bed-wet sensing
monitoring device system

Pyro electric infrared (PIR) sensor is a strong state A mesh like structure was produced on to a copper
sensor which is fit for catching infrared radiation clad board the cross section was comprised of two
emanating from the objects[11]. The sensor leads with extended structures. The expanded
fundamentally measures the adjustments in the structures of the leads don't cover one another. In
infrared radiation amid development of the items, set other vicinity of Bed-wet condition, the leads was
with in the field of perspective of the sensor. Since associated with a 5V force supply through the
the sensor is equipped for distinguishing articles resistance of 55 kilo-ohm. The second lead was
while they are in movement, they are regularly joined with the ground. The yield of the framework
viewed as movement finders. In this study, PIR was taken from the 55kilo-ohm resistance and the
sensor was appended on the pole of the support in lattice lead. The yield was associated with the AIO
order to identify the development of the child. Once, information of the Arduino UNO board. Under
the development of the infant is recognized, a control typical circumstances the lattice surface will carry on
sign was created to swing the support for the 5 as open circuit and the yield of the sensor will be 5V.
minutes. In the event that the sensor recognized the On account of Bed-wet condition, there will a drop in
development of the infant after the progression of the the yield voltage. A not as much as rationale was
swing stage, the swing was rehashed for an additional connected to produce a control signal for the
five minutes. actuation of the GSM module.

3.2 Implementation through mobile app 3.4 Implementation through noise sensor

We will connect Arduino UNO board through a When the baby will start crying the noise sensor will
Bluetooth module, the Bluetooth module will be detect the sound and gives the signal to the Arduino
connected to the phone Bluetooth. And then after UNO for the implementation of the motor and thus
connecting to the Bluetooth module, we will give the causing the swing of the bed.The diagram is shown in
voice command through an app from the phone, fig-2
which will control the swing of the cradle. The
diagram is shown in fig-1

vgkw4t noise Arduino swing of

motor
Mobile Arduino
Motor sensor UNO cradle
app UNO

Bluetooth
module

Fig1- Block diagram of control through mobile app Fig2- Block diagram of working of noise sensor
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