Baby Alarm

Problem Statement:
Now a days it has become a tough task for the parents to keep the track of babies when they are
busy. Hence there is a necessity for the technology to meet this need.
The main goal of this project is to design an application as a true replacement for hardware
baby monitoring systems.

Proposed Solution:
In this project, the baby monitoring system is implemented by designing a baby alarm
application that is triggered when the babys sleep is disturbed.

Algorithm:
The signal is divided into consecutive overlapping segments of certain length.
For each segment VAD is applied and activity is calculated. If the voice activity of a given

segment is below the pre-defined threshold, the section is considered as no cry.

If the activity is above the threshold, the section is further divided into short time frames
The following parameters are computed for each frame: The MFC coefficients, the pitch
frequency, harmonicity factor (HF), Harmonic-to-average power ratio (HAPR)
Each frame is classified either as cry or as no cry, based on its MFCC using k-NN classifier.
For each segment, if at least half of the frames are classified as cry, the whole segment is
considered as cry. Otherwise, it is considered as no cry.
When cry is detected in a segment an alarm is triggered and the parent is intimated.
A few pre-recorded sounds are assigned for different keys in the number pad in such a way
that the parent can play the required sound to ease the baby.