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St. Louis inventors offer car-seat monitor to prevent child deaths
ST. LOUIS • Two St. Louisans behind a new smartphone-enabled car seat monitoring system hope their invention prevents young children from dying in dangerously hot cars.
Business partners Bob Steffen of Crestwood and Greg Schoenberg of Sunset Hills, both 50, invented a car seat monitoring system powered by a smartphone application called iAlert.
They said they came up with the idea in 2007, after reading news coverage of 7-month-old Sophia Knutsen, who died from being left in a hot car at the Washington University Medical Center.
“That’s exactly what started this in motion,” Steffen said.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/05e85478-5e55-5021-ae14-d57ca57e051a.html