Parenthood Nowadays
With the advance of time, parents are having a lack of time. Having a baby at home and giving him the opportunity of a safe life and a natural growth became a huge challenge in the life of parents who have a fulltime work. In this case parents could lose important moments of their children's life, like first words, and they also need someone to take of the children and make sure that they are safe.
The Idea: The Smart Baby Monitor
The Smart Baby Monitor designed by IMA consists on a device which allows you to take care of children from 0 to 3 years old without being present in the same room as the child. The system take care of your child, if he cries the baby monito change the light and play songs to calm him. You will always be informed about what appen to him by notification on your smarthphone. The baby monitor also take statistics about how much the child cry, sleep and the room temperature, providing you with useful information about your child day.
System Requirements
- The system should acquire ambient information, elaborate them and store them for future consultation.
- Parents should receive message from the system in certain cases like some parameters that exceeds safe level.
- In case the baby cry the system should recognize the cry and try to find a suitable solution, like sends message to the parents in case the child is hungry.
- In case of a sleep problem or mood problem the system regulate the lights color on base of the baby's feedback.
Authors and Contributors
Irit Gorny Becher Industrial Design Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
Lorenzo Bernardi Industrial Design Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
Matteo Pullano Engineering of Cinema Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italia