Niloofar Sanandajizadeh

Distance Sensitive Jacket

This electronic wearable is a kid's jacket, sensitive to the distance from its other part, the kid's guardian alarm.,

“The aim of the design "Distance Sensitive Jacket" is to keep a constant physical connection between parents and kids, especially when they are in crowded places like a playground or a mall or even public areas like camping or the airport’s passenger section. As we know if we don’t watch our kids even for a moment they might go somewhere out of our sight and then we have to search for them with lots of stress and fear. My concept is to design a wearable that has a non-stop connection with both parents and kids so any time the kids exit the safe distance zone from their parents the gadget with the parent will alarm and notify them to look for the child at the moment. Also, the kid’s wearable starts flashing colourful lights so parents are able to recognize their loved ones faster among others.How to function:The design will use the infrared capability of the CPX controller for making the connection between two parts of the wearable(the toddler jacket and the parent's alarm part).It contains 2 pairs of jacket buttons, which are DIY switches:DIY E-textile switch to power up the circuit. DIY E-textile switch to start the board,infrared sends numbers from a variable, and infrared receives numbers. Outputs are: play sound, stop sound, RGB light on or off, and console log.”