Untitled - Institute of Technical Education

Project Title
Monitoring the Safety of Children
in Kindergarten
College
ITE College East
Members
Mohammad Hafiz Bin Abdul Hussain
Yap Tsu Hui
Track and Trace
Have you panicked because you could not
locate your child? If so, you can heave a sigh
of relief with this new invention, by two Nitec
in Wireless Technology students, which helps
trace and track the location of young children
who go missing.
The creation was inspired by an incident where
an ITE lecturer could not locate his young
daughter. The device uses GPS technology
with radio-frequency identification (RFID)
tags and readers, which are linked to a webbased
portal with web cameras. It allows
kindergarten teachers and parents to monitor
the whereabouts of children. Parents would
be able to view their children in activity, when
they access the web-based portal. The system
can also send out SMS notifications to parents
when their children enter or leave the school
compounds and when they board the school
bus.
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Team Leader, Mohammad Hafiz Bin Abdul
Hussain, shared: “The most challenging part
of the project is linking up the GPS technology
to the system. It took us about one-and-a-half
months.”
Together with his partner, Yap Tsu Hui, Hafiz
hopes the innovation would be widely used
not only by kindergartens, but also tweaked
for use in hospitals and prisons. A survey of
100 parents showed that they were receptive
towards investing in the device. “On top of
their minds is cost and when they found out
that each parent only need to pay $5.50 a
month for the kindergarten to install the
system, they were willing to give it a go,”
Hafiz added.
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