Hyderabad: A Hyderabad school student’s artificial intelligence project to identify potential child-safety incidents through CCTV footage is being deployed across 18 day care centres run by the Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs of India (COWE India).
Called Sajag AI, the system was developed by Class X students Shloak Bihani of an international school, and Aryaman Taparia of Noida. It was announced in the city during the launch of COWE India’s collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on workplace-based childcare.
The system analyses CCTV footage at COWE’s Aveksha centres and sends alerts, along with snapshots of suspected incidents, to centre coordinators and the organisation’s monitoring team through SMS and email. It is intended to help staff identify incidents that could otherwise go unnoticed while they monitor multiple camera feeds.
According to COWE, Sajag AI identified 97.3 per cent of safety incidents in an independent test set, with an overall accuracy of 91.7 per cent. Early live testing detected eight of 10 staged incidents and generated roughly one false alarm every 30 minutes of normal play.
The organisation said reducing false alerts remained a key challenge before the system could be expanded. The live trial has so far involved only a small number of staged incidents, and its reliability in routine day care settings remains to be assessed.
The system uses a low-cost computer, currently a Raspberry Pi 5, connected to existing CCTV cameras. Video is processed at the centre, while only a snapshot and basic information about a suspected incident are sent to the monitoring team.
COWE India founder and director Uma Ghurka said staff had found it difficult to monitor multiple camera feeds across 18 centres simultaneously. The system was intended to help them identify incidents as they occurred rather than discover them during later review.
Each Aveksha centre accommodates around 20 to 30 children aged six months to six years. The facilities provide free or highly subsidised childcare to children of women industrial workers and families from underserved communities. COWE plans to conduct a longer pilot to assess missed incidents, false alerts and reliability before extending the system to additional centres.
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