your quit right about the -profesional- way to deal with this, but find a company that does this for small money. Of course, the worth of children is not a question of money, but for some,like me, the mere existence of enough money is the problem, thats why i tried to sugest a cheap solution.
erh, when the house burns down, the power may
fail so you really want a door opening on powerfailiure, and maybe a batteriebased alarm going of with this.
I thought a 5 year old should not leave a house allone, but there might be situations like: Go
get your bike out of the garden, or go fetch the kindergardenbus where you would not want to stand behind the door with a key.
I think there are some groups of awnsers here:
- Key Systems of any sort - you explained to us why this will not work, kids hate stuff to look after, they lose things etc.,
- bracelets - are somehow Inhuman (and unpraktical) ever weard one of these on a festival or something? after three days you just wont to get rid of it.
there are variants to be implanted or swaloed, but i think one should not do this to kids.
- Keyboards, keypads - you explained they will be destroid, tamperd with. As the middle kid is able to type, he will get past this.
- biometrics expensive, overkill just to devide in to two groups - takes time to get past
- watchdog - a dog is great, BUT its expensive to get a traind dog, espcially if insurance dosnt pay for it, then it needs constant looking after it itself, food, water 2hour walks etc. the dog could only alarm parents, but not really stop a big child,
i believe.
So i think voicerecognition really is the anwser:
- a short command would not be unpractical, one could speak it while walking to the door smth. like "open door" would do
- if your autistic son gets past this, he learnd to
speak, (or speaks a little allraedy)you could combine this with a spoken question(voicesysntehsis)
- you could lock the hardware, incl. micro, pc etc. away in a tempersafe box
- in case of fire, a simple button conected to a sirene and the door opener could be an emergency
way to get out.As its normally not used, the children will not bother with it (?)
- an other firesafty mesure would be to look on the way the door behaves in case of powerfailiure-
the door should unlock then!
so the cost and efort for voice-recognition?
afforable i think speaking about 50$ for
the software i dont now but believe voice synthesis is about the same, a pc (an old one, pentium1 should do) a little trainig the software (to understand 5year old and grown ups also - mybe a weekend) an
i/o card with relay for the signaL from pc to door, about 50$, a little programm conecting use
of voicerecg. to i/o-card - you need someone with
about a little c++ knolege, or something alike
The point that the big kid pushes past the smaller is a problem, but the small one could inform the adults.I think finding a programmer, that implements this is the biggest part of the problem, but that may be a personal view - when your done, you should really tell here, maybe in autistic childrens parents forum al so, might interest a lot of people.
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your quit right about the -profesional- way to deal with this, but find a company that does this for small money. Of course, the worth of children is not a question of money, but for some ,like me, the mere existence of enough money is the problem, thats why i tried to sugest a cheap solution.
erh, when the house burns down, the power may fail so you really want a door opening on powerfailiure, and maybe a batteriebased alarm going of with this.
I thought a 5 year old should not leave a house allone, but there might be situations like: Go get your bike out of the garden, or go fetch the kindergardenbus where you would not want to stand behind the door with a key.
I think there are some groups of awnsers here:
- Key Systems of any sort - you explained to us why this will not work, kids hate stuff to look after, they lose things etc.,
- bracelets - are somehow Inhuman (and unpraktical) ever weard one of these on a festival or something? after three days you just wont to get rid of it. there are variants to be implanted or swaloed, but i think one should not do this to kids.
- Keyboards, keypads - you explained they will be destroid, tamperd with. As the middle kid is able to type, he will get past this.
- biometrics expensive, overkill just to devide in to two groups - takes time to get past
- watchdog - a dog is great, BUT its expensive to get a traind dog, espcially if insurance dosnt pay for it, then it needs constant looking after it itself, food, water 2hour walks etc. the dog could only alarm parents, but not really stop a big child, i believe.
So i think voicerecognition really is the anwser:
- a short command would not be unpractical, one could speak it while walking to the door smth. like "open door" would do
- if your autistic son gets past this, he learnd to speak, (or speaks a little allraedy)you could combine this with a spoken question(voicesysntehsis)
- you could lock the hardware, incl. micro, pc etc. away in a tempersafe box
- in case of fire, a simple button conected to a sirene and the door opener could be an emergency way to get out.As its normally not used, the children will not bother with it (?)
- an other firesafty mesure would be to look on the way the door behaves in case of powerfailiure- the door should unlock then!
so the cost and efort for voice-recognition? afforable i think speaking about 50$ for the software i dont now but believe voice synthesis is about the same, a pc (an old one, pentium1 should do) a little trainig the software (to understand 5year old and grown ups also - mybe a weekend) an i/o card with relay for the signaL from pc to door, about 50$, a little programm conecting use of voicerecg. to i/o-card - you need someone with about a little c++ knolege, or something alike The point that the big kid pushes past the smaller is a problem, but the small one could inform the adults.I think finding a programmer, that implements this is the biggest part of the problem, but that may be a personal view - when your done, you should really tell here, maybe in autistic childrens parents forum al so, might interest a lot of people.