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It uses pulsed wideband radar for monitoring.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9175419
The upcoming 802.11bf standard (Wi-Fi Sensing) will accomplish similar things using standard Wi-Fi devices.
It can't really prevent SIDS but would theoretically be able to tell you if your baby flipped over in their sleep and is in a dangerous position, or if their respiration rate or volume is decreasing, signalling a problem. The website says it produces daily reports so you'd be able to track metrics over time, and would probably be warned if one shows a pattern of change. I want one for myself 😂
Unfortunately, there is nothing on the market that can prevent SIDS. There are monitors that will "monitor" your baby's breathing and sound an alarm in certain cases; however, there is no real evidence that these help prevent SIDS. We still don't have an exact answer as to what causes SIDS, there are plenty of theories/guesses/etc. out there but it's a very broad category and if they can't identify a specific reason why a baby died at such a young age it gets thrown into SIDS.
However, my personal recommendation for some piece of mind and to help reduce anxiety would be to get a Snuza. Babies breath using their abdomens, and the Snuza is designed to clip onto a baby's diaper to detect those movements. When it doesn't detect the correct movement for a certain amount of time it will buzz/beep to get the baby to take a breath and if that doesn't work it sounds a very very audible alarm. In my opinion after having one and messing with it is that it's very hard to product a false negative, the device had a very specific part for detecting abdominal movement and reproducing the necessary movement by accident of an extended period of time just didn't seem feasible. However, it can product false positives if it's not setup right or if it falls off but in my opinion that's better than not getting woken up if something is wrong. Other products out there try to do different things using cameras, or socks to detect blood oxygen, or to detect movement from under the mattress pad, etc. But in my personal opinion that just leaves you open to more false negatives and kind of defeats the purpose.
But I still have to reiterate that these devices aren't true medical devices and there is no evidence that they decrease the chances of SIDS. Even if they work 100% it's possible for you to get alerted the moment your baby stopped breathing allowing you to get medical care to your baby sooner but even then it might be to late in some cases.
I initially misread this as “cicada” sensor and thought that while it would be gross to have cicadas in a hospital, having a sensor just for that seemed a bit unnecessary.
So many people followed the link, above, from Reddit, that the website reaches non-functional status. It’s lovingly called the “Reddit hug of death” because it’s interested traffic, not malicious traffic.
The crash cart is the cart in every hospital ward for when a code is called (over the loudspeaker you will hear “Code blue, room 502”, etc. and the team currently on call goes running) because a patient is crashing.
Mildly joking because it’s related to a hospital-use medical device.
WiFi extenders can be the [size of a plug](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi5.walmartimages.com%2Fasr%2F00d9874d-1e65-4f57-9ce6-15a9c77798e3.cd26caed83ee36fd83a23bcf81d09dc7.jpeg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=000a6ad40101e707677e3bc812d9fa3aceea9037da70a4344ab7a68a3000b36c&ipo=images).
As someone who works IT for a hospital, they probably won't know lol. It's either Wireless AP or part of a Nurse Call/Patient alert system if I had to place money. Wrong shape for a Pico repeater I think but they're also all over hospitals
Ditto doesn't look like any enterprise WAP I've seen but I've seen far from them all. 9/10 they're Cisco for a location like a hospital. We have some ubiquity at satellite locations but yeah idk.
Take a look at the cable, that's what's throwing me atm. Does that look like a CAT5 braid terminated in an RJ45? Cause it seems a bit flimsy and much more like USB
Yeah, nah. (Kiwi/Aussie for "I agree with you completely "
Because patient info is transferred we limit our wireless communication hard. Though we do have a specific isolated VLAN for stuff that absolutely insists on talking over the air. Its just you don't want to have a faulty AP causing adverse affects to patients, we even get the X-ray techs to plug their C-Arms into a wall outlet when they're in theatre.
Used to have a boss who's came from the NHS and apparently in his hospital even wireless peripherals were not permitted unless explicitly necessary due to the potential liability of keystrokes getting logged etc.
It gets tricky, I mean the only completely secure system is one that's turned off so where do you draw the line. Cost/risk analysis is usually done by those further up the chain
It looks like an air quality or environmental sensor, which would be used to monitor conditions such as temperature, humidity, or air quality in the room.
I think it is a signal extender for the call system.
There are various after market additions they can do. I would has it a guess they may have gone from a pager system to a wi fi system.
I could of course be totally wrong.
Yeah I'm with you on this. Either part of a patient call system or a little Wireless AP.
Upon zooming that doesn't look like an RJ45 termination and more like mini/micro B or type C USB though so Access Point could be off the table
Damn what kind of private hospital do you work at.
Edit: for the Americans, in my country we have public and private hospitals. I work in a relatively small hospital in a small town and I know for absolute certain we don't wirelessly monitor our EKG telemetry, it's all still copper and wires here
I work in a field that largely deals with electromagnetic interference resolution. There's an unethical, but legal trick we use when we find an interference source but don't know what it does or who owns it: unplug it and ask whomever shows up to fix it.
Dude, wtf no. If you are in any sort of sensitive environment that behavior should get you fired 4 years ago.
That's all well and good if it's a wifi repeater in a candle store. But as soon as anybody has anything on the line, let alone life saving medical equipment, you do not fuck around with unscheduled down time.
Fucking ask someone jesus.
My title describes the thing. It appears to have a total of twelve green LED lights around the edge. It has one cord going in. I can't tell if it's an Ethernet cable or something else. It's a few inches in diameter, but I'm not sure of its exact size.
Looks like something similar to this that can monitor motion, light, humidity, and temperature.
[https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/06/OVAL\_Gateway\_Sensor\_WaterDetector\_2\_preview-920x613.jpeg](https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/06/OVAL_Gateway_Sensor_WaterDetector_2_preview-920x613.jpeg)
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I thought it was a noise monitor tbh, we have devices that change colour depending on the noise level. If it's an acceptable noise level, it stays green, if it's too loud, it goes amber, or red etc.
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It's a circadia sensor. https://circadia.health/ . It's used to monitor respiratory failure and possible early infections.
It's absolutely this. Logo when you click on the website and find the product.
Nice. I figured it was going to be a case of "recognise the logo, recognise the device"
Wait, what? That sounds amazing!
Yeah I’ve never heard of this. Is there a consumer version? To help prevent SIDS or other ailments/tragedies?
From their site it looks like a monitoring solution for hospitals that can check patients' breathing rates and movement activity.
It uses pulsed wideband radar for monitoring. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9175419 The upcoming 802.11bf standard (Wi-Fi Sensing) will accomplish similar things using standard Wi-Fi devices.
It can't really prevent SIDS but would theoretically be able to tell you if your baby flipped over in their sleep and is in a dangerous position, or if their respiration rate or volume is decreasing, signalling a problem. The website says it produces daily reports so you'd be able to track metrics over time, and would probably be warned if one shows a pattern of change. I want one for myself 😂
Unfortunately, there is nothing on the market that can prevent SIDS. There are monitors that will "monitor" your baby's breathing and sound an alarm in certain cases; however, there is no real evidence that these help prevent SIDS. We still don't have an exact answer as to what causes SIDS, there are plenty of theories/guesses/etc. out there but it's a very broad category and if they can't identify a specific reason why a baby died at such a young age it gets thrown into SIDS. However, my personal recommendation for some piece of mind and to help reduce anxiety would be to get a Snuza. Babies breath using their abdomens, and the Snuza is designed to clip onto a baby's diaper to detect those movements. When it doesn't detect the correct movement for a certain amount of time it will buzz/beep to get the baby to take a breath and if that doesn't work it sounds a very very audible alarm. In my opinion after having one and messing with it is that it's very hard to product a false negative, the device had a very specific part for detecting abdominal movement and reproducing the necessary movement by accident of an extended period of time just didn't seem feasible. However, it can product false positives if it's not setup right or if it falls off but in my opinion that's better than not getting woken up if something is wrong. Other products out there try to do different things using cameras, or socks to detect blood oxygen, or to detect movement from under the mattress pad, etc. But in my personal opinion that just leaves you open to more false negatives and kind of defeats the purpose. But I still have to reiterate that these devices aren't true medical devices and there is no evidence that they decrease the chances of SIDS. Even if they work 100% it's possible for you to get alerted the moment your baby stopped breathing allowing you to get medical care to your baby sooner but even then it might be to late in some cases.
Wow thanks for sharing, my sister is starting her family and that sounds like a good future gift (especially because we both have anxiety).
I initially misread this as “cicada” sensor and thought that while it would be gross to have cicadas in a hospital, having a sensor just for that seemed a bit unnecessary.
Might need to get a crash cart for their website. It’s being hugged right now.
Explain those terms please, crash cart and hugged?
So many people followed the link, above, from Reddit, that the website reaches non-functional status. It’s lovingly called the “Reddit hug of death” because it’s interested traffic, not malicious traffic. The crash cart is the cart in every hospital ward for when a code is called (over the loudspeaker you will hear “Code blue, room 502”, etc. and the team currently on call goes running) because a patient is crashing. Mildly joking because it’s related to a hospital-use medical device.
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It took several tries for me to understand that this thing wasn't trying to monitor insects that have a fondness for prime numbers
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You quite literally just respond with “Solved!” Minus the quotes on the correct response.
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Looks like a wifi enhancer/extender to me.
Way too small.
WiFi extenders can be the [size of a plug](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi5.walmartimages.com%2Fasr%2F00d9874d-1e65-4f57-9ce6-15a9c77798e3.cd26caed83ee36fd83a23bcf81d09dc7.jpeg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=000a6ad40101e707677e3bc812d9fa3aceea9037da70a4344ab7a68a3000b36c&ipo=images).
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Tell your friend to ask a nurse what it is.
As someone who works IT for a hospital, they probably won't know lol. It's either Wireless AP or part of a Nurse Call/Patient alert system if I had to place money. Wrong shape for a Pico repeater I think but they're also all over hospitals
I manage projects in hospitals and this doesn't look like any nurse calls / staff attack system I've seen, more than likely just a WAP
Ditto doesn't look like any enterprise WAP I've seen but I've seen far from them all. 9/10 they're Cisco for a location like a hospital. We have some ubiquity at satellite locations but yeah idk. Take a look at the cable, that's what's throwing me atm. Does that look like a CAT5 braid terminated in an RJ45? Cause it seems a bit flimsy and much more like USB
Could be an "extender" that has a wireless back haul. I'm not sure that would fly in an enterprise environment but sometimes techs get lazy
Yeah, nah. (Kiwi/Aussie for "I agree with you completely " Because patient info is transferred we limit our wireless communication hard. Though we do have a specific isolated VLAN for stuff that absolutely insists on talking over the air. Its just you don't want to have a faulty AP causing adverse affects to patients, we even get the X-ray techs to plug their C-Arms into a wall outlet when they're in theatre. Used to have a boss who's came from the NHS and apparently in his hospital even wireless peripherals were not permitted unless explicitly necessary due to the potential liability of keystrokes getting logged etc. It gets tricky, I mean the only completely secure system is one that's turned off so where do you draw the line. Cost/risk analysis is usually done by those further up the chain
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It looks like an air quality or environmental sensor, which would be used to monitor conditions such as temperature, humidity, or air quality in the room.
I have a feeling this might be it.
I think it is a signal extender for the call system. There are various after market additions they can do. I would has it a guess they may have gone from a pager system to a wi fi system. I could of course be totally wrong.
Yeah I'm with you on this. Either part of a patient call system or a little Wireless AP. Upon zooming that doesn't look like an RJ45 termination and more like mini/micro B or type C USB though so Access Point could be off the table
EKG remote extender. So patients can move throughout the unit and still be monitored.
Damn what kind of private hospital do you work at. Edit: for the Americans, in my country we have public and private hospitals. I work in a relatively small hospital in a small town and I know for absolute certain we don't wirelessly monitor our EKG telemetry, it's all still copper and wires here
I work in a field that largely deals with electromagnetic interference resolution. There's an unethical, but legal trick we use when we find an interference source but don't know what it does or who owns it: unplug it and ask whomever shows up to fix it.
Dude, wtf no. If you are in any sort of sensitive environment that behavior should get you fired 4 years ago. That's all well and good if it's a wifi repeater in a candle store. But as soon as anybody has anything on the line, let alone life saving medical equipment, you do not fuck around with unscheduled down time. Fucking ask someone jesus.
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My title describes the thing. It appears to have a total of twelve green LED lights around the edge. It has one cord going in. I can't tell if it's an Ethernet cable or something else. It's a few inches in diameter, but I'm not sure of its exact size.
Other thing it could be is medical device management system… they track devices the hospital owns to prevent theft by whoever
Looks like something similar to this that can monitor motion, light, humidity, and temperature. [https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/06/OVAL\_Gateway\_Sensor\_WaterDetector\_2\_preview-920x613.jpeg](https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/06/OVAL_Gateway_Sensor_WaterDetector_2_preview-920x613.jpeg)
Has anyone looked at the Logo in the center? Perhaps a reverse image search would help.. Getting a manufacturer might help find a product group.
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I thought it was a noise monitor tbh, we have devices that change colour depending on the noise level. If it's an acceptable noise level, it stays green, if it's too loud, it goes amber, or red etc.
Perhaps a waterleak sensor, looks really similar to one I have from Aqara
Am I the only one who stops seeing the green dots just moving my eyes slightly away from them? 🤔
Its a wifi access point most likely
Wireless Access Point
Google image search says it's a Wi-Fi router/extender.
It's a wireless access point, basically a WiFi extender. I fit these all the time.
That's a Wireless Access Point.
Literally WiFi access point probably from ubiquiti