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Existing products in the marketing targeting the issue of child fatalities in heated vehicles generally fall under three different categories: attachment to seat, attachment to buckle or expert installation into the car. Most of the products aim to warn parents if they have accidentally left a child behind in the car using alert signals from the car key ring, the phone or an alarm installed within the car. However, research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that the available devices in the market are unreliable in prevention.
ThermSafe relies on two conditions to be met:
- The first part is to detect when there is a high temperature inside the car
- Once the first condition is met, we will need to detect whether there is a person inside the car
Once these two conditions are met, the system will transmit the alarm signal through the mobile network to the parent. The system is represented by the flowchart below.
