CHILD PRESENCE DETECTION (CPD) DUMMY WITH EMBEDDED ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
BOOTH NO : G5
Category : HEALTH, WELNESS & WELLBEING
The Child Presence Detection (CPD) Detection Subject is an infant-size dummy with an embedded artificial respiratory system. It is developed as a validation tool that represents the actual characteristics of an infant up to two years of age. It can simulate breathing actions according to standard pediatric guidelines and ASEAN NCAP's CPD assessment procedure. The CPD dummy is portable and detectable by various CPD sensing technologies regardless of where it is positioned in a vehicle. Automotive manufacturers and CPD technology developers can use this dummy to validate their CPD technologies for accuracy and reliability. Therefore, this dummy helps the development of respective technologies to prevent child deaths due to heatstroke or vehicle entrapment and enhances overall children's well-being and safety. Furthermore, the utilisation of the dummy can eliminate ethical concerns about using real infants during vehicle assessments.
Leaving a child unattended in a parked car, even for a few minutes, can lead to heat stroke and death. Infants and young children are vulnerable as they may be unable to exit the vehicle independently. The surge of public attention on such tragic causes of death in young children has led to the introduction of a vehicle child occupant safety alert system, namely the Child Presence Detection (CPD), into all new passenger cars. The main purpose of the CPD system is to prevent young passengers from being left forgotten in a car, or protect young children from heatstrokes if left unattended in vehicles by giving immediate alerts to the driver or surrounding people. However, to validate the CPD technology, the vehicle manufacturers and technology developers require an assessment tool that can simulate children’s characteristic and respiratory actions. Vehicle assessments with real infants and young children are challenging and time-consuming, especially when ethical concerns are involved.
Child Safety Enhancement: The foremost need is to prevent tragic incidents of children being left unattended in vehicles, leading to heatstroke and harm. Theres a critical need for reliable, accurate, and ethical solutions to address this issue.
Regulatory Compliance: The need for a CPD dummy as a validation tool is derived from legislation imposed on a particular region. For the ASEAN region, the New Car Assessment Programme for Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN NCAP) has included the requirement for CPD technology in its roadmap. From 2026 on, ASEAN NCAP will reward cars that offer CPD systems that can physically detect the presence of an unattended child and provide initial and escalation warnings. This means vehicles with CPD systems that are more effective at detecting children will receive a higher rating from ASEAN NCAP.
Ethical Vehicle Assessment: Physical vehicle assessments with infants and young children may require lengthy procedures and proper assessment guidelines to ensure all data is valid. In addition, ethical issues may arise if the assessment procedures are not carried out properly. Hence, the actual infants and young children are unlikely to be used as an assessment tool for any vehicle assessment, including the ASEAN NCAPs CPD assessments.
Regulatory Compliance: The development of the CPD dummy complies with all the requirements specified by ASEAN NCAP, making it a valuable validation/assessment tool for meeting the safety standards of this region.
Advanced Integration: The development of a CPD dummy with an integrated control system as a surrogate for CPD assessment, effectively representing real infant characteristics of newborns up to 2 years old and imitating realistic breathing movement as imposed by the ASEAN NCAPs protocol.
Enhanced Child Safety: The CPD Dummy directly prevents child fatalities due to heatstroke and accidental confinement. The utilisation of the CPD dummy is broad, including (but not limited to) vehicle safety applications, the automotive industry, and medical.
Regulatory Compliance:The CPD detection subject development shall support ASEAN NCAP Roadmap 2026-2023 in preventing child death due to heat stroke or being forgotten in cars. Automotive manufacturers can confidently validate their CPD systems for regulatory compliance using the CPD dummy.
Ethical Solution: By eliminating the need to use real infants for testing, the CPD Dummy addresses ethical concerns associated with safety testing.
Accurate Validation: The CPD dummy ensures accurate testing of CPD technologies under various real-world scenarios, leading to reliable results. The CPD dummy is designed to simulate infants in diverse behaviour (i.e., sleeping or distress), replicating real-world situations to validate CPD technology. This will help all vehicle manufacturers hone their CPD technologies under realistic conditions and thoroughly assess the technologys ability to detect the presence of young passengers, even when they are in blind spot areas or making the slightest movements.
Alternative Technologies: Competitors might develop CPD dummies using different technology and detection parameters. Our CPD dummy is developed based on the protocols employed by paediatricians in ASEAN, complying with the WHO guidelines. Unlike the competitors version, the anthropometric and respiratory information of our CPD dummy meets the ASEAN chart sizing for young children below two years old. The specified sizing for our dummy matches with Classification 1 of the CPD detection subject in the ASEAN NCAP Protocol (i.e. young infant: birth to two years old).
Existing competitors include Messring and 4ActiveOD which focus only on newborns. However, the dummies do not realistically represent anthropometric measurements of newborns.
Messring - https://www.messring.de/en/products/active-safety/cpd-dummy/
4ActiveOD - https://www.4activesystems.at/4activeod
The potential market for the CPD dummy is broad and diverse, encompassing various industries and segments that prioritize child safety, technology development and regulatory compliance. The primary target market now is focusing on the potential industrial partners in the ASEAN region.
Potential Industrial Partner:
1. Automotive manufacturers or OEMs (e.g., Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Perodua, Proton, etc,).
2. Child Presence Detection Technology Developers (e.g., Bosch, Continental Automotive, IEEE Sensing, Aisin, etc,).
3. Regulatory Authorities (e.g., Ministry of Transportation, ASEAN NCAP, JPJ, etc.).
4. Research Institutions and Safety Organisations (e.g., Universities, R&D centres, UNICEF, etc.)
5. Medical and Childcare Facilities (e.g., Hospitals, Pediatric Clinics, Childcare Centers, etc.)
NURULAKMAR BINTI ABU HUSAIN
MALAYSIA-JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NURULAKMAR BINTI ABU HUSAIN
MALAYSIA-JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NURHANISAH BINTI MAHYUDDIN
PUSAT PENGURUSAN PENYELIDIKAN
MOHD KHAIRI BIN ABU HUSAIN
FAKULTI KECERDASAN BUATAN
NOOR IRZA BINTI MOHD ZAKI
FAKULTI KECERDASAN BUATAN
SITI MAHIRAH CHE HUSIN
YAHAYA BIN AHMAD
AINA FARHANAH ADANAN
WILLI TIEN YEE HONG
MALAYSIA-JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY