© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved1 Improving Safety Inside the Unattended Car Ness Software Engineering Services Kuruvilla Mathew Chief Innovation Officer December 9 th 2015

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved2 What is this session about? Applying IoT to improving safety inside an unattended car (or vehicle) when there are restrained unattended occupants on a hot summer day. : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved3 The potential danger with unattended vehicles A quick run into the grocery store, to the bank for a quick transaction, or to pickup food can turn dangerous with restrained unattended occupants – a child or a pet – in the car. : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved4 Even when the car is in the driveway of a home … a child could slip into a vehicle unnoticed. : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved5 The tipping point The IoT solution for this use case was inspired by and dedicated to the children and pets left unattended in vehicles, where temperatures reached highs that were fatal or caused irreversible harm. Source: : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved6 The Solution Enable an array of sensors to detect distressed sound, frantic movement, high temperatures and low humidity to trigger an alarm-based on a threshold … even when it is unarmed, thus ensuring unattended children and pets are monitored. : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved7 The Sensor Tube : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car Humidity Sensor Temperature Sensor Temperature Sensor Real Time Clock Left Microphone Right Microphone Motion Sensor Microcontroller Integrator Alarm ZigBee Communication The assembly in the vehicle has a number of sensors that are collecting data and sending to the integrator unit. The integrator is constantly computing to sense the event threshold. Additionally, alternate sensors help rule out false positives. harness housing

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved8 Integrating to the Connected Car : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car The sensor array that has a collector is localizing the data and determining if the event that is looking has occurred. The solution would be integrated with the vehicle's CAN bus, external Z-Wave/ZigBee hubs and/or GPRS to send links to external systems. Unattended Occupants In a Vehicle Caregivers Law Enforcement Connected Home Monitoring

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved9 Quick View : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car Over 40 hours of testing in vehicle. Cylindrical assembly to protect against damage and heat. Assembly of all sensors along with the command module. ZigBee communication module on the command module.

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved10 Quick View : Improving Safety inside the Unattended Car Some of the testing done that was 114 degrees Fahrenheit Test command canter that captured the data over ZigBee. While outside temperatures were 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The data is sent over a simple JSON format.

© 2015 Ness SES. All Rights Reserved11 For more information, contact: Kuruvilla Mathew Chief Innovation Officer Ness SES ness-ses.com