Multimodal sensing system to enhance the safety of infants in the home environment

We propose a system which consists of a multimodal sensing-, reasoning- and actuation-stage to monitor the infant’s behavior and sleeping environment, particularly to improve the infant’s safety. Moreover, the system advices parents on the child’s development. The multi-parametric monitoring system can detect physiological and behavior parameters derived from the infant. Furthermore, people visiting the infant’s sleeping environment are identified upon entrance and tracked during their stay in the room. The sensors systems include video, pressure and audio based technologies. High level sensor events are extracted from the raw sensor data, fused and fed into a reasoning system. Depending on the decision outcome, relevant in-home services are automatically actuated to provide feedback to the parents or other caregivers on the behavior of the infant.