{"635751":{"#nid":"635751","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Device Helps Parents Keep an Eye on\u00a0Children in Public Places","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs parents know, it is not uncommon for children to wander off in public places. This is particularly true for children on the autism spectrum or with other special needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, a team of student entrepreneurs from Georgia Tech has created BuddyEye to help parents easily track and locate a lost child. The wristband uses a combination of Bluetooth and GPS technologies to alert parents when their child leaves a specified area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the research phase of their project, team members found that 60 percent of parents with children on the autism spectrum reported that their child had gone missing for more than an hour at least once. This can be distressing for children and parents alike, especially in crowded public spaces like zoos, shopping malls, or amusement parks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to give these and other parents another set of eyes to keep track of their children and an efficient way to find them should they wander off,\u0026quot; said \u003Cstrong\u003ETillson Galloway\u003C\/strong\u003E, Invenovate co-founder and second-year computer science student.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe developers are including software that alerts a store or other location that a child using BuddyEye is lost. Once alerted, store employees can lock doors, make appropriate announcements, and take other steps to help find the child quickly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;BuddyEye provides a safety net. It vibrates, immediately notifying the parent when their child moves beyond a designated range. It also lets the child know that they are out of range so they will hopefully head back toward their parent,\u0026rdquo; said Galloway.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the rest of the team \u0026ndash; mechanical engineering students \u003Cstrong\u003EAlejandro Campos\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EMark Saad\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Andre Prieto, an industrial design student from Universidad de las Am\u0026eacute;ricas in Ecuador \u0026ndash; is primarily tasked with developing the hardware, Tillson is leading the charge on the application itself.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe says the BuddyEye platform is being developed using Facebook\u0026rsquo;s React Native, an open-source mobile application framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s great about React Native is that it lets developers build apps for IOS, Android, and the web without having to separately code for each platform,\u0026rdquo; Galloway said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students behind BuddyEye are currently participating in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s annual \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/launch\u0022\u003ECREATE-X Launch\u003C\/a\u003E program. Their startup company is known as Invenovate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the CREATE-X Launch competition runs through the summer, BuddyEye has already earned a positive response.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team also entered its product in the recently participated \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/i2s\/index.html\u0022\u003EIdeas to Serve (I2S) competition sponsored by Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Scheller College of Business\u003C\/a\u003E. The team won first place and $2,500 in the Solutions Discovery Track of the annual I2S competition. They were also winners of the Best Pitch Award, which earned them an additional $500.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A CREATE-X team is developing wearable technology to track children that wonder off."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2020-05-28 14:39:26","changed_gmt":"2020-05-28 18:01:08","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"635794":{"id":"635794","type":"image","title":"Team Invenovate - CREATE-X Launch 2020","body":null,"created":"1590688774","gmt_created":"2020-05-28 17:59:34","changed":"1590688796","gmt_changed":"2020-05-28 17:59:56","alt":"Three Georgia Tech students that comprise Team Invenovate","file":{"fid":"241906","name":"Invenovate-team-createX-launch-summer-2020.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Invenovate-team-createX-launch-summer-2020.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Invenovate-team-createX-launch-summer-2020.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":207384,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Invenovate-team-createX-launch-summer-2020.jpeg?itok=axiFqS0t"}}},"media_ids":["635794"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"184953","name":"buddyeye"},{"id":"46361","name":"GT computing"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Snedeker, Sr. Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu?subject=CREATE-X%20project%20BuddyEye\u0022\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["albert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}