Watch Over

About the System:

The guardian angel for your children, now in your pocket. Watch over is a GPS tracker in the form of a kids watch that lets you locate your children through a smart phone app. It’s smart, affordable and getting started is as easy as a breeze. It is a first-of-its-kind IoT solution that won top honors at the AVNET bluemix with IBM watson hackathon. (*year of hackathon, unknown).

Customer:

Competing in a global IBM® Watson® Developer Cloud hackathon challenge, Software Productivity Strategists Inc. developed an Internet of Things tracking solution for caregivers. The platform runs in an IBM Bluemix® environment and incorporates the IBM Watson Discovery News Service to assess news content and provide critical alerts.

Objective:

Tracking the whereabouts of children is becoming essential for parents these days. Parents with children who are old enough to own a smartphone can have them text back or call them if they want to check up on them. But what about younger children who don’t own a smartphone? It is more essential to have a tracker for young children who are more prone to getting out of sight. Any parent who’s frantically searched for a lost child will likely see the appeal of trackers.

That’s where Watch Over comes in. It’s like a guardian angel for children between the ages of two and 10. Watch Over is a GPS tracker in a watch that enables parents to locate children through a smartphone app.

Process:

Watch Over was developed by Simorgh-SPS using IBM Cloud, incorporating the Watson Alchemy Data News API. The back end is a node.js app hosted on IBM Cloud, using the Internet of Things (IoT) Foundation and the Geo-Spatial Analytics service. The application shows the current location of the children on a Google Map, but it does not require constant monitoring. Parents create a boundary using geo-fences and receive a push notification when a child crosses a boundary. Watch Over also filters news from sources all over the world and notifies parents in real time if something occurs that might have an impact on their children.

Solution:

Watch Over was a part of a 19-day global, Avnet-sponsored virtual hackathon. A platform that would enable it to quickly build a system that includes an IoT device, a back-end app using cognitive algorithms to analyze unstructured data and a mobile app. The application was hosted on IBM Cloud. SPS won the hackathon, beating 100 other contestants. Video link to product.