Patent ID: 7042361

Claim:
A child monitoring, communication and locating system for use with an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus having a wire defining a periphery of a containment area and a generator to apply an electronic signal to the wire, the wire emitting a first radio frequency signal, said system comprising: a control unit comprising: a control unit microcontroller, said control unit microcontroller being programmable with at least one system input data; and a control unit transceiver; at least one child module to be carried by a child, said child module comprising: a child module microcontroller; a wire detector for detecting a first radio frequency signal from the wire and for generating wire detection signals in response to the detection of a wire when said wire detector is a predetermined distance from the wire; and a child module transceiver for electronically connecting said wire detector to said control unit transceiver, said child module microcontroller being programmable with a system input data code corresponding to the system input data programmed into said control unit for establishing a unique radio frequency channel between said child module transceiver and said control unit; said child module transceiver transmitting an alarm signal on said unique frequency channel to said control unit transceiver in response to said wire detector being a predetermined distance from the wire defining the perimeter of a containment area, said control unit transceiver generating a responsive alarm in response to receiving said alarm signal.