This amazing app aims to save the lives of babies across the world.
It’s hard to imagine, but accidentally leaving your child in a car seat is incredibly common. In fact, according to Kidsafe, during the period from August 2013 to September 2014, paramedics rescued 1165 children that had been left unattended in cars in the state of Victoria alone.
And in a country like Australia, that regularly sees very high temperatures; the consequences of doing so can often be fatal.
While in some cases, parents aren’t aware of the dangers of popping to the shops while leaving their kids in the car, in many of the cases; parents have simply forgotten that their child is still in the car. This phenomenon has been dubbed ‘fatal distraction’.
So what can we do to prevent such horrible mistakes?
A group of mechanical engineering students from Rice University in the US may just have the answer.
They’ve come up with a technology driven solution called Infant SOS that combines a mobile app with sensors that has the potential to save many lives.
The Infant SOS system been designed to that can be retrofitted to any child car seat. The device sounds an alarm after 30 seconds if the sensors in the child’s car seat detect that the child has been left unattended. Plus, the Infant SOS system is linked to a mobile app that sends up to 10 text messages to parents or carers alerting them to the fact that their child has been left alone in the car.
And if that’s not enough, the students have gone one step further, by incorporating a cooling pad that is automatically triggered to switch on in the case of such an emergency.
So far the Infant S.O.S. system is still in the development and prototyping phase, but hopefully the system gets onto the market soon.
Is this possibly the most helpful and useful app ever invented?
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