Friday 28 June 2013

Essential Features of a Baby Monitor



When you’re buying a baby monitor you’re often either standing in a relatively quiet, well lit shop, or you’re calmly sitting at home on the computer, as you may well be doing right now. This is a problem. The problem is that when you are actually using a baby monitor the situation you’ll find yourself in aren’t always as relaxed, quiet and convenient and this can mean that baby monitors you thought ideal end up falling short of the mark. 

Visual Display of Audio
One of the main reasons people choose baby monitors is so that they can hear their baby no matter where they are and what they are doing. If you’re sitting in a quiet room at home on the computer, or even in a relatively calm and quiet shop, you may focus almost exclusively in the quality if that sound. Certainly the quality of sound is important, with DECT offering the best sound quality of all, but sometimes even that’s not enough.
No matter how good your baby monitor is, if you happen to be doing the vacuuming or you’re in the kitchen with the microwave going it may well be difficulty to hear the door knock, let alone hear your baby crying through the baby monitor.  This is where visual representation of the audio is ideal. Typically this will involve a row of lights across the top of the monitor which light up in response to any sound detected by the monitoring unit. So if our little one is really screaming away, the lights will be illuminating your house! 


Smarter convenience
It’s surprising how many people end up carting around their baby monitor listening unit around with them, checking batteries and reception regularly, forgetting the fact thy already have a fully chard device that’s got great reception, great sound and excellent video. Today’s smartphone baby monitor’s make life much easier and by buying a smartphone monitor you can not only cut down on cost, but often find a range of additional benefits which make them ideal solutions. 

Battery Monitor
Whilst today’s baby monitors are pretty efficient and can make batteries last a long time, the parent unit will need replacement batteries at some point. The only problem is how you will be able to tell if the batteries have run out, or if your baby is just being very quiet. However, some baby monitors do have battery meters and whilst at the time of purchase this can seem a little unnecessary or unimportant, the truth is that one you have a small child to look after, as well as yourself, a battery meter can offer tremendous reassurance.

Encryption
If you live in a fairly built up neighbourhood then it is probably best to go for DECT digital baby monitor, or perhaps one which connects through your home wireless network.  If you’re in a more rural environment then you may not necessarily have the same concerns. The problem is that unsecured analogue baby monitors use a limited number of radio frequencies to transmit audio and video, which means that it may well be possible for other people nearby to hear or see the feed coming from your baby monitor.

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