In a major breakthrough, it has been confirmed that a team from the University of Utah has managed to develop a wireless sensor network that has the capability to identify if a patient stops breathing while undergoing surgery, the condition better known as sleep apnea in normal circumstances.

The team is quite positive that a lot could be done to deal with cases of infant death syndrome now.

For the study, the team led by researcher Neal Patwari arranged beds with 20 wireless transceivers on the 2.4 gigahertz frequency, and managed to get the desired results.

Being tagged as affordable, the team is expecting the new device to take the research work to a new level so that accuracy can be raised while dealing with two people breathing at the same time with different breathing patterns.

As the research is capturing the attention of the medical fraternity, it's being expected that in the next five years, the newly developed system would be able to be a vital part of a baby monitoring system.

If the lead researcher is to be believed, the main cashing point is that there is no hassle what so ever as far as connecting a patient to tubes or wires, which makes a patient sleep in a sound manner.