Designing a space-oriented system for ubiquitous outdoor kid´s safety care

Lots of kids accidents are caused by various dangerous factors frequently existing in some special spaces. In this paper, we show our design of a system for ubiquitous outdoor kid´s safety care using space-oriented concepts and contexts. This system can acquire the kid´s location information and a kid´s profile. Then, it summarizes a kids situation using acquisition knowledge base of accidents or parents´ stored information, and detects a possible danger near the kid based on semantics of real spaces. All spaces and related information are defined by specialized schemas, and are described as space-oriented contexts using XML format. The kid´s safety care is accomplished cooperatively by both the agents and cognitive patterns-based diagnostic mechanism in the system. Advisory agents can give advices to kids and parents after comparative computation between the real and expected situations using hypothesis based on cognitive patterns, and they can predict dangers. From our survey, this system seems to be the first of its kind, i.e., a system designed for outdoor kid´s safety care.