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Design And Development Of An Emergency System For Children In A Hot Car At Risk Of Heatstroke, Nathan Kisha
Design And Development Of An Emergency System For Children In A Hot Car At Risk Of Heatstroke, Nathan Kisha
Research Opportunities for Engineering Undergraduates (ROEU) Program 2017-18
Since 1998, an average of 37 children have died every year due to heat-related deaths after being stuck in a vehicle, making it the leading cause of non-crash-related fatalities among children. This creates an opportunity to create a system which will be able to detect this danger and do something in order to prevent it. There are 4 main objectives for the system to be able to accomplish: 1) determine if the temperature in the car poses a risk, 2) use an alarm to provide a warning and wake up a sleeping child, 3) determine if someone is in the …