A team from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) is working on a device to monitor the vital functions of infants during sleep to detect the signals of cot death and enable a quick response. 

The project by students: Julia Wilk, Mikołaj Miszczak, Michał Skibiński and Jan Piliszczuk, as well as scientists Dr Edyta Rola and Dr Cezary Rzymkowski, Prof. of the Warsaw University of Technology, have just been awarded in the 13th nationwide Student-Inventor competition.

‘Our device consists of a system of sensors together with an information processing system designed to identify the occurrence of cot death in an infant’, explains Mikołaj Miszczak. 

The system is based on a neural network with a sequential architecture, which allows the criteria for identifying the occurrence of a life-threatening situation to be adapted individually for a specific infant. This allows for more accurate detection than in other devices to date.