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DESIGN OF SMART CRADLE SYSTEM USING IOT
Gulam Sarwar*1, Mohd Amir*2, Nikhil Yadav*3, Prince Meenia*4
*1,2,3,4Department Of Electronics And Communication, Noida Institute Of Engineering And
Technology Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
ABSTRACT
In the age of modernization, A Parent’s life undergo various changes due to child monitoring. Our project
focuses on the relevant problems faced by parent in monitoring and nurturing their child while working. This
project aims at reducing the challenges faced by parent by developing an IOT based Smart Cradle monitoring
System that will assist Parent in monitoring their child. This cradle is equipped with an swinging mechanism
which swings automatically on detection of baby crying sound. This proposed smart cradle has been integrated
with an camera to provide continuous surveillance to parents. An arduino, sound sensors, wetness sensor,
swinging mechanism along with other electronic components are used to upgrade existing cradle to meet the
Present day requirements. This project is quite efficient and reliable which can deliver result better then
conventional cradle.
Keywords: Smart Cradle, Iot, Swinging Mechanism, Video Monitoring.
I. INTRODUCTION
From last few decades there is a large migration of people in metro cities in search of better job opportunities
(specially women workforce). At present couples who both are working may find it difficult to give proper time
and care to their baby. In corona times many people were working from home and it was difficult for them to
balance workload and parenting, This put extra burden on parent, Situation aggravates when baby is ill where
it require a constant monitoring which results in taking leave from works. This not only affect the career of
parent but also put a stress on them so there is a need to reduce burden of monitoring and nurturing on
parents. Our project is an innovative idea to resolve this problem by developing an automated smart cradle
system using IOT to monitor and nurture child in an efficient way. We ought to create an IOT based smart
cradle system to assist parent in monitoring of their child regardless of their presence whether they are at work
or in home.
This cradle system is equipped with an automated swing mechanism which will swing automatically on
detection of baby crying sound also it has an certain time limit to send an notification to parent if baby don’t
stop crying, Along with it has an wetness detector to detect the wetness of mattress and send SMS to parent’s
phone. A camera is attached at top of the cradle so that parent can have continuous surveillance on their baby
while they are at work. This cradle also has an automatic toy for baby’s entertainment which will reduce the
possibility of baby crying.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Marie R. Harper and Maxine R. Blea developed the first automatic rocking cradle which swings side by side on a
horizontal axis which replicate the motion same as achieved by human oscillation of cradle. Spring motors are
used to provide oscillatory motion to crib. Springs motors are attached to the crib of cradle that produce motion
same as human efforts. The spring motor is of any known type in which the gear –operating means is easily
stopped when the slightest resistance or opposition to its movement is encountered, thereby providing on
extremely safe device for use with small children or babies. The advantages of this system is cost effectiveness,
safe for small babies as it has mechanism to stop swinging of crib whenever a resistance is occurred, require
less human efforts and presence. The limitation of this system is it does not support video monitoring [1].
Yang HU developed an algorithm to control the speed of motors based on the parameters obtained from baby
monitoring this model help the user to control the speed of swinging on pattern of intensity of baby crying. [2].
In [3] authors have designed a cradle system with an android app to monitor baby, which swings automatically
after detection of baby crying sound. The principle behind this mechanism is that a sound sensor detect sound
made by baby during crying and compare it to Preset value in microcontroller if sound made by baby is greater
than preset value a signal is generated by microcontroller who activates the swing mechanism also an SMS is
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sent to parent phone using GSM module. Additionally a camera is placed at top connected with cloud server so
that parent can request video from camera from any place.
In [4] authors have used a Gas sensor (MQ-135), Temperature sensor (LM-35), sound sensor (KY-038) and a
cloud server to integrated it with Raspberry pi in order to upgrade the conventional cradle system to meet the
needs of parents. The three sensors records the data collected from baby body parameters and all the
information taken from sensors is stored in cloud which keep on sending SMS to parent regarding baby
parameters at regular interval of time. This system is user friendly as it requires less hardware components and
cost effective. The limitation of this system is that it only informs the parent about baby status but don’t take
any action to make him/her stop crying.
In [5] introduced a framework which observe all necessary indication of the child like heartbeats and the
internal heat level utilizing remote innovation and sound sensors which is used for observing the cry pattern of
the child. Additionally, the live images of the infant is obtained through camera module through a Wide Area
Network (WAN) which can be sent through mail and it can keep surveillance on the baby from distant areas
around the world. The camera module is also induced which is responsible for observing the activities of the
child and keeping an eye on the infants development in a limited area. This framework is easy to use and quite
cost effective.
III. COMPONENTS
The below section gives a detailed information about the components used in this project with their
specifications.
A. Arduino Uno
Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which
6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator (CSTCE16M0V53-R0), a USB
connection, a power jack, an ICSP header and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the
microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or
battery to get started.
B. GSM Module
A GSM module is a a hardware device that uses GSM mobile telephone technology to provide a data link to a
remote network. From the view of the mobile phone network, they are essentially identical to an ordinary
mobile phone, including the need for a SIM to identify themselves to the network. GSM modems typically
provide TTL-level serial interfaces to their host. They are usually used as part of an embedded system.
C. Servo Motor
A servo motor is a rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position,
velocity and acceleration. It consists of a suitable motor coupled to a sensor for position feedback. It also
requires a relatively sophisticated controller, often a dedicated module designed specifically for use with servo
motors.
D. Wet Sensor
It detects the moisture in crib when baby urinate and send signal to arduino.
E. Condenser microphone
A condenser microphone is an active transducer that converts sound waves (mechanical wave energy) into
audio signals (electrical energy) via the movement of a diaphragm in a fixed-charge capacitor-based capsule
and electrostatic principles
F. WIFI- Camera
A Wireless cameras work by transmitting the camera's video through a radio (RF) transmitter. The video is sent
to a receiver that is connected to a built-in storage device or through cloud storage. Through your monitor or
receiver, you'll have an easy link to access all of your image or video clips.

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IV. WORKING
A. Interfacing and working of sound sensor with arduino
To detect the sound of baby during we need a sound sensor to detect the noise. A sound sensor is a electrical
component used to detect the sound present in the near environment. A sound sensor have a
microphone(50KHz- 100KHz) and a processing circuitry which converts analog sound waves into electrical
signals. This electrical signal act as input to LM393 which is a High Precision Comparator that converts
electrical signal into digital signal and send it to output pin. A sound sensor have 3 Pin:
1. VCC- This pin is used to provide power to sensor. Its operatonal voltage range is 3V – 5V.
2. GND - This Pin is used to ground the connection.
3. OUT – At this Pin final digital signal is obtained which is connected to arduino to feed it. When no noise is
detected voltage across this pin is High and when noise is detected voltage across this pin becomes low. This
pin can be connected to any of the 14 digital pin in arduino.
Connect VCC pin of sound sensor to 5V on the arduino and GND pin to ground on arduino, OUT pin to digital pin
7 on the arduino. To detect the sound of baby accurately we need to calibrate the sensor by rotating knob or
screw present at the top of the sensor, rotating screw in clockwise direction will decrease the sensitivity and
rotating in anti clockwise will increase the sensitivity. Once sensor become calibrate to measure the sound of
baby when crying accurately connection is done as mentioned above and sound sensor is ready to use.
B. Interfacing and working of servo motors with arduino
Servo motors are used to produce oscillation motion because it is quite efficient, powerful and its parameters
are easily adjustable to user need such as speed. Servo motors can be controllable by providing series of pulses
to the signal lines. A conventional; servo motor expects pulse signal at every 20 milliseconds (i.e signal should
be 50 KHz)
1. If the pulse is high for 1ms, then the servo angle will be zero
2. If the pulse is high for 1.5ms, then the servo angle will be at its center position.
3. If the pulse is high for 2ms, then the servo angle will at 180 degree.
To replicate the swinging elevation of crib same as human swinging we need to fix the pulse at 1.5ms to avoid
over elevation angle which increases the chances of baby to fall out from crib.
C. Interfacing GSM module and working with arduino
GSM (SIM900 GSM shield) module is used to send notification on parent phone and receive commands from
parents with the help of cloud server. The Tx pin of GSM module is connect with RXo f arduino which is pin 0
and RX pin of GSM module with TX pin of arduino which is pin 1.
V. WORKING PROJECT IMAGES

Fig 1: Side view of cradle

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Fig 2: Top view of cradle

Fig 3: Full view of cradle

VI. CONCLUSION
IoT based smart cradle system give convenience and surveillance to parent in real time as compared to
conventional cradle It also ensure baby safety while they are not physically present near cradle, so
it is efficient to use IOT based smart cradle system to take care of infant in proficient manner. IOT based
smart cradle also require less human interaction so we can take care of child without any human interface by
maintaining social distancing this will reduces the chances of spreading viruses to baby.
VII. FUTURE SCOPES
In future we can integrate our project with machine learning that will records all the activity of baby for few
days specially baby biological clock and then tells us when baby more likely to urinate or feel hunger etc.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to express our special thanks to Mrs. SHIKHA SINGH who is an assistant professor in ECE
department of N.I.E.T college, Greater Noida, without her valuable guidance and Knowledge our project can
never be implemented. She motivated our group multiple times and provided her guidance.
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