Design of An Infant Car Seat with a Cooling System and Alert System for the Safety of an Infant Left in a Car
School Name
Spring Valley High School
Grade Level
11th Grade
Presentation Topic
Engineering
Presentation Type
Non-Mentored
Abstract
In recent years, there have been cases of children being left in enclosed vehicles and dying due to hyperthermia. In 2021, there were 23 deaths due to children being left in cars (Hot car deaths, 2022). Fifty-four percent of children are forgotten in vehicles thus, a solution should be developed to save the lives of the infants (Hazizan et al., 2020). The purpose of this study is to design, prototype, and test an alert and cooling system for an infant car seat to prevent these deaths. The engineering goal for this project was to combine two existing systems: one functional alert system and one functional cooling system. The design used thermoelectric coolers, a passive infrared motion sensor, a GSM module, and an Arduino. The thermoelectric coolers were connected to heatsinks which cooled the car seat at 26 degrees celsius. And at 25 degrees celsius, the alert system sent an alert using the GSM module. Then, the design was tested in a car by simulating the high temperatures by setting the air conditioning to high. The results of the study showed that the cooling system was able to reduce the temperature of the car seat from 26 degrees celsius relatively down to 23 degrees. Furthermore, the alert system also was successful on all the trials made sending a text to the experimenter. Based on these results, the design produced in this study showcases proof of concept to cool an infant in a car seat and to send an alert to the responsible adult.
Recommended Citation
Saravanan, Kavin, "Design of An Infant Car Seat with a Cooling System and Alert System for the Safety of an Infant Left in a Car" (2023). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 67.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2023/all/67
Location
BS 302
Start Date
3-25-2023 9:15 AM
Presentation Format
Oral and Written
Group Project
No
Design of An Infant Car Seat with a Cooling System and Alert System for the Safety of an Infant Left in a Car
BS 302
In recent years, there have been cases of children being left in enclosed vehicles and dying due to hyperthermia. In 2021, there were 23 deaths due to children being left in cars (Hot car deaths, 2022). Fifty-four percent of children are forgotten in vehicles thus, a solution should be developed to save the lives of the infants (Hazizan et al., 2020). The purpose of this study is to design, prototype, and test an alert and cooling system for an infant car seat to prevent these deaths. The engineering goal for this project was to combine two existing systems: one functional alert system and one functional cooling system. The design used thermoelectric coolers, a passive infrared motion sensor, a GSM module, and an Arduino. The thermoelectric coolers were connected to heatsinks which cooled the car seat at 26 degrees celsius. And at 25 degrees celsius, the alert system sent an alert using the GSM module. Then, the design was tested in a car by simulating the high temperatures by setting the air conditioning to high. The results of the study showed that the cooling system was able to reduce the temperature of the car seat from 26 degrees celsius relatively down to 23 degrees. Furthermore, the alert system also was successful on all the trials made sending a text to the experimenter. Based on these results, the design produced in this study showcases proof of concept to cool an infant in a car seat and to send an alert to the responsible adult.
