Device and method for monitoring state of thermal comfort of a baby at sleep or a partially disabled patient
AssigneeMichael Smolsky
InventorMichael Smolsky
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Abstract
Systems and methods for monitoring baby's or partially disabled patient's level of thermal comfort during his/her rest in bed are provided. Preferably, the system comprises: a sensor of infrared (IR) radiation coupled to electric circuitry, the circuitry includes a transmitter of radio signal, and, as a separate unit, a receiver of this radio signal. The transmitter includes a circuit containing an alarm with an adjustable threshold that turns the alarm on whenever the heat flux radiated by the body of a patient or a baby rises above user-adjustable upper threshold value, or falls below lower threshold value. The system may be combined with a standard, advanced or video baby monitor.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a sensor device sensitive to temporal variations of flux of infrared (IR) radiation emitted by a human body, said variations measured relatively to a predefined reference flux of said radiation, said reference flux is the IR flux, emitted at a body's thermal comfort state;
- a transmitter device coupled to said sensor device and producing a signal for
- a receiver device, capable of displaying said variations of said flux of said radiation.
A method of monitoring a human employing a parent unit and a baby unit, said baby unit including an infrared sensor device coupled to transmitting electric circuit, said parent unit including receiving electric current, said method comprising the steps of:
- installing and configuring the system;
- receiving the infrared flux emitted by said human said infrared sensor device;
- converting said flux into an electric signal by said transmitting electric circuit;
- processing of said electric signal by said transmitting electric circuit;
- said processing comprising:
- comparing said electric signal to a signal corresponding to a flux emitted by said human in a state of thermal comfort;
- sending the result of said comparison to said receiving electric circuit;
- and activating said parent unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.