I-Corps: Child Tracking and Detection - A Public Safety Application Through Mobile Crowd-Sensing

本项目基于移动人群感知原理，实现了一个用于跟踪儿童的公共安全应用程序。儿童保护是一个关键的全球公共安全问题。对父母来说，跟踪年幼的孩子往往是一项艰巨的任务。对于有特殊需要的孩子的父母来说，这一责任尤其具有挑战性。一项追踪失踪儿童的社会努力是琥珀警报计划，重点是激励整个社区协助寻找和安全找回失踪儿童。虽然琥珀警报计划的社会监测覆盖范围近年来显著扩大，包括电话短信和在线社交媒体，但成功的恢复往往太慢，成功率非常低，而且这个过程代价高昂。该团队的技术使琥珀警报的各个方面实现了自动化，并通过创新的无线和云技术从根本上提高了有效性。该项目有效和高效地利用人群来保护儿童，使用的技术提供了更快、更好、更便宜的解决方案。该项目涉及为儿童提供WiFi标签，以及为父母、照顾者和志愿者提供智能手机应用程序。该团队利用儿童标签原型的所有组件，以及带有父母模式、照顾者模式和志愿者模式的智能手机应用程序，制作了这项技术的原型。除了儿童保护这一主要关注点外，该团队还将探索拟议创新的其他市场，如宠物主人、游乐园、商场、教育机构、零售和医院。除了直接制造和分销，该团队对将拟议中的技术授权给其他位置跟踪设备制造商持开放态度。

Based on principles of Mobile Crowd-Sensing, this project implements a Public Safety application for tracking children.Child protection is a critical global public safety issue. Keeping track of young children is often a daunting task for parents. The responsibility is especially challenging for parents with special-needs children. One social effort to track missing children, the AMBER Alert Program, focuses on galvanizing an entire community to assist in the search for and safe recovery of missing children. While the AMBER Alert Program's coverage of social monitoring has significantly broadened in recent years, including phone messaging and online social media, successful recoveries are often far too slow, the success rate is very low, and the process is costly. This team's technology automates aspects of AMBER Alert and radically improves the effectiveness through innovative wireless and cloud technologies.This project effectively and efficiently utilizes crowds to protect children using technology that provides a faster, better, and less expensive solution. The project involves WiFi tags for children and smartphone apps for parents, caregivers and volunteers. This team prototyped the technology with all of the components of a child tag prototype plus the smartphone app with parent mode, caregiver mode, and a volunteer mode. In addition to the main focus, child protection, the team will explore other markets of the proposed innovation such as pet owners, amusement parks, malls, educational institutions, retail, and hospitals. In addition to direct manufacturing and distribution, the team is open to licensing the proposed technology to other location tracking device makers.