A company in Osaka developed a safety device using an AI camera to prevent children from being left behind on the school bus, and on the 30th, an experiment was conducted on the bus of a certified child center.
This device emits a warning sound when an AI camera installed in the bus detects a person left behind and informs the surroundings, and an experiment was conducted at a certified child center in Hirakata City, Osaka.
The experiment was conducted on the assumption that a child was left behind on a school bus, and after installing four cameras inside the bus, one of the children sat in the seat of the bus.
After a certain amount of time passed after the driver stopped the engine, the camera started to move, and when a person was detected inside the bus, a loud warning sound sounded to alert the outside of the bus.
A nearby person rushed to check the inside of the bus, and when the person who was left behind was taken out of the bus, the warning sound stopped.
Kazuo Matsui, the principal of Konoike Gakuen Third Kindergarten, said, "I want to put the safety of the children first and take measures by introducing devices so that parents can feel at ease."
Toshiyuki Ozaki, CEO of TCI, a manufacturer in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, who developed the device, said, ``I think that people will make mistakes and be left behind on the bus, so I would like to use this device to eliminate accidents. I want it,' he said.
Following the death of a 3-year-old girl who was left behind in a school bus in Shizuoka Prefecture, the government instructed the relevant ministries and agencies on the 29th to require the installation of safety devices on the shuttle bus.
Development of a device that notifies an abnormality in an emergency Nagoya
In response to the incident involving a kindergarten bus in Shizuoka Prefecture, a company in Nagoya developed a device that could notify the outside of an emergency by pressing a button.
The device was developed by an automobile parts manufacturer in Nagoya City, and in the event of an emergency such as being left behind in the car, pressing a button installed inside the car activates the hazard lamps and horn to notify the outside of the abnormality. .
The windows on the driver's and passenger's seats open about 5 centimeters to make it easier to hear voices from inside the car.
On the 30th, at an international school in Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture, where this device was introduced to the shuttle bus, children learned how to deal with emergencies and confirmed how the horn sounds when the button is pressed.
A girl who participated said, "Push a button and tell everyone to help."
Tomoki Nakazato, president of Tomoki Special Parts, which developed the device, said, "We developed it so that when a child is left behind, they can easily put out a large sign with little effort."