Engineers: Wireless crib monitor keeps tabs on baby's breathing

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 02:50 in Health & Medicine

Radar - the technology that tracks enemy bombers and hurricanes - is now being employed to detect another danger: when babies stop breathing. In a high-tech twist on the remote devices that allow parents to listen to or watch their baby from afar, University of Florida engineering researchers have built a prototype baby monitor that focuses on a baby's breathing. If his or her chest stops moving, the crib-mounted monitor detects the problem and sends an alarm to a portable unit kept by the parents...

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