Smart Sock Alerts Parents if Baby Stops Breathing
From: Wireless Design & Development - 11/28/2012

A team of students at Brigham Young University has created a baby monitor
that is strapped around the baby’s foot, worn like a sock, which monitors the
heart rate and blood-oxygen levels. 

If the baby does stop breathing or if her heart rate changes, the monitor
will wirelessly send an alert to the parent’s smartphone via an app. 

That way, even when you’re sleeping, you can rest assured, literally, that
your baby is safe. 

The Owlet Baby Monitor was created by student innovator Jacob Colvin and his
team. Colvin himself is a father of two, who hopes the wireless smart sock
will help to reduce the number of deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(SIDS). It won’t prevent the cause of SIDS, but it can alert a parent if
something has changed that they need to be aware of. "Our hope is that we can
give parents time to react and see that something’s wrong before it's too
late," says Colvin. 

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http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1211&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=000000&PRODLETT=OY.html

Links:
While you were sleeping: Monitor alerts parents if baby stops breathing (with video 1:29)
http://news.byu.edu/archive12-nov-studentinnovator.aspx

Owlet Baby Monitor
http://www.owletcare.com/

Student Innovator of the Year Competition at BYU
http://news.byu.edu/archive12-nov-sioy.aspx