An Australian study has found that home monitoring technology, which takes just five minutes, could be the solution to detecting asthma attacks.

Hundreds of thousands of Aussie kids suffer from asthma daily, and while technology is improving, there is still no way of knowing when an attack is about to happen.

Professor Paul Robinson has spearheaded the innovation that monitors when a child's asthma isn't under control.

"I was struck by the number of kids who continue to have asthma attacks, and I was struck by the number of kids that sadly continue to die from asthma."

The new home-based approach is being tested as an early warning system.

"Last year, there were 467 deaths because of asthma, and they're preventable," Asthma Australia CEO Kate Miranda said.

The device measures what

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