Patent Document ID: 20120083670
Application ID: 13227154
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for performing the monitoring of the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and positional plagiocephaly, comprising the method steps of: providing at least one sensor device ( 102 ) capable of converting at least one physical magnitude into at least one electrical signal associated to the typical breath and positioning patterns of an infant; providing a processing unit capable of acquiring from the sensor device the generated electrical signal, converting the electrical signal in numeric signal data and storing the signal data into a local memory; using the processing unit for processing the stored signal data and for generating different kind of alarms for the caregiver whenever a risk of SIDS or plagiocephaly above a predefined threshold is detected; wherein at least one of the sensor devices and the processing unit are disposed within a common housing forming a single wearable monitoring device, which is attached to the infant clothes or to the infant head; that an energy storage of the monitoring device is provided with energy allowing continued operation without recharge for an autonomous operation period of at least 12 hours; that numerical signal data generated during the operation period are transferred to the local memory during the operation period; that the processing unit utilizes statistical analysis and/or pattern recognition algorithms, applied in real time to the signal data, to recognize potentially dangerous situations in the short and mid term during the current operation period; and that the data stored in the local memory are downloaded on an external processing unit and a statistical analysis, clustering and/or pattern recognition algorithm is applied to the data of more than one operation period to identify the long term risk of SIDS or plagiocephaly, and/or to optimize the reliability of the monitoring device with respect to the particular environment and/or infant characteristics.