For any parent, first time or not, monitoring and caring for your baby’s safety is of the utmost of importance, especially if you’re not around to take care of them yourself. How can someone provide useful and timely information to parents when they are away from their baby while helping them feel more connected?
BabyBit, developed by Brian Ostrovsky, co-founder and CEO of the company’s primary device, claims to be the first “smart and mobile baby monitor” that provides parents with real-time mobile updates on their baby's status, location, and well being. They have partnered with automaker Jaguar Land Rover to create a device that will put parents’ worries to rest.
The development team created a device that sends parents instant and actionable notifications about the location of the baby, who they are with and what the baby is doing.
"We see the device being sold online as well as traditional brick and mortar retail. BabyBit will evolve and continue to add capabilities through software such as geofencing, Siri integration, etc. We also see opportunities for products based on the same technologies in eldercare and potentially diagnostics,” said Ostrovsky, who was Intel’s former director of Big Ideas.
Old-fashioned baby monitors only offer a video view or audio of the infant, but this device offers features to ensure the safety of the baby at all times. Some of these features include advanced technology as the device turns mobile technology and raw data into meaningful insights. Parents are able to receive notifications about the child’s overall well being such as the comfort level of the child, the air temperature of the room where the child is, their location, and the most important aspect, whether the baby is asleep or not.
BabyBit provides parents with alerts about the child’s safety with the caregiver, whether a new employee or a long time caregiver. BabyBit delivers alerts of critical events like the baby being picked up or dropped off by a new caregiver, or the caregiver being unable to console the baby. Notifications are configurable to the needs of each parent and they receive notifications based on the parameters that they set. BabyBit offers an app, that when launched parents can provide parents with more detailed intelligence such as whether or not the baby is crying and how far away the baby is from the caregiver.
The device’s sensor, which is attached to the baby’s clothing, can add as many caregivers as necessary through the iOS or Android app.
Although this product is not out on the market yet, it has capability to redefine how we care for and protect infants and babies through new technology.
Edited by
Ken Briodagh
