Multi Purpose Alarm

I have just discovered a new type of monitor manufactured by an Australian company called EC international. I am not sure if it is available in the UK but I'll post about it in case it helps someone. You may be able to contact them and have them supply it - there are no specifications on the website. The monitor is called My Angel iMonitor. The monitor and sensors clips onto a nappy or underwear, and there is a hand held wireless receiver that the carer takes with them that bleeps when an alarm in the monitor goes off. It has multiple functions:

- It can sense abnormal movements and muscles and bleep the carer - so muscle spasms, exercises, pain and seizures can be detected

- It can sense somebody falling and bleep

- It can bleep the carer when it is time to give feeds or medications

- It can sense multiple urinations and defecations and it bleeps when these occur. It can also display the time since the last urinations and defecations (it counts them separately from each other).

- It can allow the person wearing it to call a carer by pressing a button

- It can detect room temperature and bleep the carer when it gets too hot or too cold

- It can read the position of the person when they are lying in bed, which may prevent migration across the bed and falls.

- It can sense if the person wanders off or is abducted.

It doesn't touch the person's skin except possibly for a small piece of the clip that clips onto the nappy or underwear, and the urine and feces sensors are not placed inside the nappy or underwear; they are stuck onto the outside of it.

Here is the link for more information:

http://www.myangelmonitor.com/index.html