Patent ID: 7855652

Claim:
A system for detecting possible sleepwalking episodes of an individual, comprising: a monitoring unit structured to be worn by the individual while the individual is sleeping, the monitoring unit having a first processing unit, a motion sensor in electronic communication with the first processing unit, and one or more monitoring unit alert mechanisms in electronic communication with the first processing unit and structured to generate a humanly perceptible alarm within the vicinity of the monitoring unit, the motion sensor generating one or more signals indicative of the movement of the individual, wherein the first processing unit causes a first humanly perceptible alarm to be emitted by the one or more monitoring unit alert mechanisms when the first processing unit determines that the one or more signals indicative of the movement of the individual indicate a possible sleepwalking episode; and a base unit positioned within an environment where the individual sleeps; wherein at least one of the monitoring unit and the base unit causes one or more humanly perceptible proximity based alarms to be emitted by the system when the monitoring unit is determined to be at least a certain distance away from the base unit.