Patent ID: 8154413

Claim:
A system for monitoring a subject, the system comprising: a plurality of beds, each bed of said plurality of beds including a data collector transmitter and a sensor array wherein said sensor array includes a plurality of sensor units; each sensor unit of said plurality of sensor units provides data to said data collector transmitter wherein the data is transmitted by said data collector transmitter to a central processor at wide intervals when no movement by the subject is sensed and the data is transmitted to said central processor at rapid intervals when movement by the subject is sensed, wherein said central processor connects each bed of said plurality of beds in a network; a database of said central processor stores the data from each bed of said plurality of beds received from said data collector transmitter, wherein the data includes date data, time data, and position data of the subject within each bed of said plurality of beds; said central processor interprets the data to detect a change in position of the subject within each bed of said plurality of beds and generates a report providing caregiver performance data of at least one caregiver, wherein the caregiver performance data includes caregiver-initiated movement of the subject within each bed of said plurality of beds in the network.