摘要 |
According to one aspect of the present invention a method of monitoring activity of at least one animate being includes the steps of monitoring the being with a detector (10) such as a dual element pyro-electric sensor capable of detecting movement and of recording on a logging device (12), at predetermined intervals, the presence or absence of movement. The logging device (12) preferably contains means for averaging the records over a predetermined time scale and of storing the average in a memory. By repeating this process over a period of time a record of the being's activity can be obtained. |