Spanish company ICN Technologies has developed a new technology to identify the newborn that promises to revolutionize the identification of the baby at birth.
The current system is vulnerable, and although it is unusual, mistakes can be made such as exchange or theft of babies in the hospital. For this, ICN Technologies has created a device based on an electronic reader that allows fingerprinting of the newborn in the delivery room next to those of its biological mother so that it can be identified without errors or confusion.
The device prevents identity errors, changes of babies or robberies in the hospital through a new technology that combines a Biometric and RFID reader (radiofrequency identification).
The biometric reader records the fingerprints of the mother and the baby at the time of delivery through a complex system that ensures an unequivocal, reliable and permanent identification of the newborn. Taking traces of a newborn can be very complex due to its minimum size and external conditions such as water, biological remains or hypothermia of the baby.
For its part, radiofrequency identification allows real-time monitoring of the mother and the baby. It is able to detect where everyone is at all times, so if the baby and the mother distance more than so many meters, an alarm sounds by activating the hospital's security system that allows closing doors or blocking elevators. This prevents the exit or manipulation of the baby inside the center.
It is a very important innovation for the identification of the newborn with total safety guarantee. Hopefully it will be extended to hospitals across the country for greater peace of mind for parents.
