Preventing cot death for infants in day care

It is estimated that 1 in 2000 live born infants die as a result of what is commonly referred to as cot death. Of these cases, 20-30% of the deaths occur in licensed day care centres. Due to the current financial crisis it is possible that the number of children left in care will increase as parents have to work longer hours to maintain their standard of living. It is the intention of this paper to present a prototype system which utilises miniature wireless sensor devices which could allow online monitoring of infants at home, as well as in large day care centres.