Car seat accessory can save children.

PositionHeat Stroke - Brief article

An average of 38 children die each year after being left in hot cars. Five recent graduates of Rice University, Houston, Texas, have designed a car seat accessory that not only can protect infants left in overheated vehicles, but can notify caregivers and emergency personnel.

Audrey Clayton, Rachel Wang, Jason Fang, Ralph LaFrance, and Ge You spent the past year working at Rice's Engineering Design Kitchen to develop Infant SOS. The device is fitted into standard car seats and can issue auditory, visual, and text alerts when it senses the infant is in danger. It also features a passive cooling system designed to keep an infant's core temperature below a critical point (heat stroke begins at 104[degrees]F) until emergency responders arrive.

The alert system is the accessory's primary means of protection and includes sensors to detect if the car is moving, if the child still is in the seat, and if the temperature in the vehicle begins to rise. If the device detects that the car is parked with the child still in its seat, the device's responses will...

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