Design & Development of an AI-Powered Baby Monitoring System

Abstract

Being parents in a world with increasing responsibilities does not prove to be an easy task. Recent advancements make artificial intelligence and computer vision attractive platforms in the reimagining of parental-aid devices like baby monitors. Drawing on market research of existing devices and opinions of previous baby-monitor users, we employed IoT design principles to develop a cheap and convenient baby monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to provide aid to parents. The system proved to be effective, as features such as cry and roll detection performed as expected. Further optimizations in the artificial intelligent models can be made to increase system efficiencies, allowing the system to be more performant on specialized hardware.