Owlet ‘Smart Sock’ Baby Monitor Consumer Suit Tossed, for Now

June 2, 2020, 3:37 PM UTC

Parents who allege Owlet Baby Care Inc. deceptively markets “Smart Sock” baby monitors that don’t accurately track infants’ vital signs failed to show how they were fooled, a federal court in Utah said in tossing the claims, at least for now.

The smartphone-integrated products use miniaturized pulse oximetry technology to monitor babies’ oxygen saturation and heart rate levels, and are designed to notify parents if those levels fall outside a preset zone. The sensor technology is worn as a “sock” on a sleeping baby’s foot. Pulse oximetry measures the oxygen level in the blood.

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