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17-03-07, 03:57 PM
MUSCAT — The College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University has a thriving culture of generating new ideas. A group of engineering students from the College of Engineering has come up with innovative and cost-effective projects designed to make life easier for the public.
Many parents would have experienced the nightmare of losing their child in some public place.
The Child Locator System, designed by the SQU students, comes as a boon and make your outing a safe and worry-free experience. Unlike conventional child locator systems, this device is equipped with a GPS chip so that the child can be located practically anywhere, even if the child lands in another part of the world.
Apart from locating the child, the device is also capable of setting off an alarm when the child goes beyond a certain distance away from the parents. Thus, it is equipped to serve a dual purpose.
The Child Locator System is based on wireless technology known as ZigBee technology (IEEE802.15.4 standard). It is a set of high-level communication protocols that is responsible for moving data between two addressable devices.
The child locator consists of two parts: A transmitter, embedded with a GPS chip, which is attached to the child’s hand and a receiver, attached to the parent’s hand, which receives the child’s location from the transmitter that is detected by the GPS chip. The data is then sent to the micro-controller by the 3-wire serial data communication.
The interfacing circuit receives the location of the child.
It then processes the direction and distance by comparing the parent’s and the child’s locations. It then displays the distance in metres and the direction of the child.
If the distance exceeded 10 metres, the alarm will turn on.
Fatma Abdullah Al Balushi and Sheikha Ahmed Al Hatmi are building the device, while the adviser for the project is Hilal Saloum Al Shukairi.
The child locator system is the brainchild of Muntasir Al Kharousi, who came up with the idea after he had a harrowing time in one of the shopping malls in the UAE where he lost his younger sister.
Eventually, after more than four hours, his family managed to trace her, but that incident prompted Muntasir to devise this project.
Muntasir is also involved in another project known as ‘Controlling car remotely through intranet’.
This remote control is certainly not a toy for hyperactive kids but is meant to work in emergencies like earthquakes and activities like exploration, etc.
The small car which will be equipped with a camera and two small Servo motors to run the tyres will be able to go into places where human beings cannot reach and transmit live (streaming) video images through wireless technology. The car will be controlled with the help of a computer.
The advisers for this car project are Ahmed Al Maashri; Ahmed Al Amri; and Mahmood Ali Al Kalbani. The project is being handled by Muntasir Al Kharousi; Noora Al Balushi; Khadija Al Balushi; Ghalia Al Nahwi; Huda Al Lawati; Narjes Al Lawati; and Fatma Al Masrouri.
Qais Said Al Sariri, a fifth year student at the College of Engineering, who is the team leader for both the projects, says that getting the devices is very difficult. For example, the GPS chip used in the child locator system is very difficult to obtain, informed Qais.
“We also hope that some manufacturer will show interest in our projects,” said Qais.
http://www.timesofoman.com/echoice.asp?detail=4469&rand=oQts41t4W0VKrRpGXQ5aDGaGnP
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Nice project.
I think it will be useful to locate OBL as well.
Many parents would have experienced the nightmare of losing their child in some public place.
The Child Locator System, designed by the SQU students, comes as a boon and make your outing a safe and worry-free experience. Unlike conventional child locator systems, this device is equipped with a GPS chip so that the child can be located practically anywhere, even if the child lands in another part of the world.
Apart from locating the child, the device is also capable of setting off an alarm when the child goes beyond a certain distance away from the parents. Thus, it is equipped to serve a dual purpose.
The Child Locator System is based on wireless technology known as ZigBee technology (IEEE802.15.4 standard). It is a set of high-level communication protocols that is responsible for moving data between two addressable devices.
The child locator consists of two parts: A transmitter, embedded with a GPS chip, which is attached to the child’s hand and a receiver, attached to the parent’s hand, which receives the child’s location from the transmitter that is detected by the GPS chip. The data is then sent to the micro-controller by the 3-wire serial data communication.
The interfacing circuit receives the location of the child.
It then processes the direction and distance by comparing the parent’s and the child’s locations. It then displays the distance in metres and the direction of the child.
If the distance exceeded 10 metres, the alarm will turn on.
Fatma Abdullah Al Balushi and Sheikha Ahmed Al Hatmi are building the device, while the adviser for the project is Hilal Saloum Al Shukairi.
The child locator system is the brainchild of Muntasir Al Kharousi, who came up with the idea after he had a harrowing time in one of the shopping malls in the UAE where he lost his younger sister.
Eventually, after more than four hours, his family managed to trace her, but that incident prompted Muntasir to devise this project.
Muntasir is also involved in another project known as ‘Controlling car remotely through intranet’.
This remote control is certainly not a toy for hyperactive kids but is meant to work in emergencies like earthquakes and activities like exploration, etc.
The small car which will be equipped with a camera and two small Servo motors to run the tyres will be able to go into places where human beings cannot reach and transmit live (streaming) video images through wireless technology. The car will be controlled with the help of a computer.
The advisers for this car project are Ahmed Al Maashri; Ahmed Al Amri; and Mahmood Ali Al Kalbani. The project is being handled by Muntasir Al Kharousi; Noora Al Balushi; Khadija Al Balushi; Ghalia Al Nahwi; Huda Al Lawati; Narjes Al Lawati; and Fatma Al Masrouri.
Qais Said Al Sariri, a fifth year student at the College of Engineering, who is the team leader for both the projects, says that getting the devices is very difficult. For example, the GPS chip used in the child locator system is very difficult to obtain, informed Qais.
“We also hope that some manufacturer will show interest in our projects,” said Qais.
http://www.timesofoman.com/echoice.asp?detail=4469&rand=oQts41t4W0VKrRpGXQ5aDGaGnP
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Nice project.
I think it will be useful to locate OBL as well.