Wearables

Monbaby smart button monitors baby's sleeping patterns

Monbaby smart button monitors baby's sleeping patterns
Monbaby can be attached to any item of clothing to monitor and provide analysis on your baby's sleeping patterns
Monbaby can be attached to any item of clothing to monitor and provide analysis on your baby's sleeping patterns
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The device looks like a large button and features a built-in MEMS 140bit accelerometer which tracks motion
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The device looks like a large button and features a built-in MEMS 140bit accelerometer which tracks motion
The smartphone app then displays information in real-time, such as whether your baby is sleeping on its stomach or back, whether there is tossing and turning or if it is about to wake up
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The smartphone app then displays information in real-time, such as whether your baby is sleeping on its stomach or back, whether there is tossing and turning or if it is about to wake up
Alerts can be set through the app to pertain to particular conditions, for example if your baby rolls over to lie on its stomach
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Alerts can be set through the app to pertain to particular conditions, for example if your baby rolls over to lie on its stomach
The Monbaby smart button can be attached to any item of clothing
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The Monbaby smart button can be attached to any item of clothing
Monbaby can be attached to any item of clothing to monitor and provide analysis on your baby's sleeping patterns
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Monbaby can be attached to any item of clothing to monitor and provide analysis on your baby's sleeping patterns
The smartphone app then displays information in real-time, such as whether your baby is sleeping on its stomach or back, whether there is tossing and turning or if it is about to wake up
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The smartphone app then displays information in real-time, such as whether your baby is sleeping on its stomach or back, whether there is tossing and turning or if it is about to wake up
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Wearable baby monitors certainly appear an emerging trend, with recent efforts including a bodysuit packed with sensors and a smart sock to track your baby's vital signs. Taking yet another approach is US-based inventor Arturas Vaitaitis, whose Monbaby smart button can be attached to any item of clothing to monitor and provide analysis of your baby's sleeping patterns.

Looking like a large button, the device features a built-in MEMS 140-bit accelerometer to track motion, the baby's orientation, activity levels and breathing. These measurements are recorded five times per second and then relayed via Bluetooth 4.0 to a smartphone companion smartphone app.

The smartphone app then displays information in real-time, such as whether your baby is sleeping on its stomach or back, whether there is tossing and turning, or if it is about to wake up. Alerts can also be set through the app to pertain to particular conditions, for example, if your baby rolls over to lie on its stomach.

Further to the real-time tracking of sleep, Monbaby stores the collected data in the cloud, which the user can then access via a website to gain insights into broader sleep patterns and share the analysis with family or their doctor.

Monbaby has a Bluetooth range of 200 ft (61 m) and is powered by a 3-volt coin-cell battery, which the company says should be good for five weeks of constant, real-time monitoring or one year in passive mode.

Vaitaitis has turned to Kickstarter to raise funds for Monbaby where a pledge of US$79 will put you in line for the device along with the smartphone app. The app is currently only available for iPhone, but if the campaign reaches $100,000, the team will develop an Android version. Shipping is estimated for October 2014.

You can hear from Vaitaitis in his Kickstarter pitch video below.

Source: MonDevices

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Mel Tisdale
If such devices can help save lives lost to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, then I wish them well with their development programme.
Taner Fejzulovski
Although you noticed that your baby differentiate day and night, it is still often wakes up at night. Experts say that by the age of four months, sleep is a basic need of the baby, but some children still do not know how to rest alone. However, some bad habits can be corrected in a few days.
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