Saturday, November 17, 2018

Rock-A-Bye Baby, In The Smart Cradle

Anaivarukum iniya Dheebavali nal valhthukkal. Deepavali naal vazhthagal~


Happy Diwali to all my Hindu friends. How was your holiday planning? Hope you had some great time with your love ones. I had mine when I went to visit my friends at Cameron Highlands. It was a great breeze up there. During this holiday, I took the opportunity to visit some of my relatives too, who are also residing there. The air was fresh and the temperature was cool. It was a relaxing way to recharge and do some self reflections.
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When I was visiting my aunt, she just had her 1st grandchild in her family. Boy, was she so excited and thrilled to have this little angel into the family. She keeps talking about her little grandchild throughout the day. Of course you can't expect that the little toddler will keep quiet the whole time, right? The baby was keep screaming for milk and after awhile, a little nap. As I was looking at the baby cradle, I was wondering if there's anything smart that have been invented in the market?
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What Is The Definition Of Smart Cradle?

Infants or a toddlers needs parents' attention 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, which is practically impossible due to other priorities like household activities, official works and personal works. Baby care centre or nanny are the two options available which involves lots of passion. We live in a world where technologies are used all around us and the new generations of parents were raised with technology. There are many things these parents will buy to help them care for their baby and a lot of these products can be put into one system. “Smart Baby Cradle “provide parents a smart system to monitor and comfort the baby. The Smart Baby Cradle allows them to monitoring their babies, the cradle, play soothing music and even speak to the baby. 

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The Smart baby cradle is a baby-care system that will provide a safe cradle for baby and allow wireless remoting to monitoring and comfort the baby. Parents can use a smartphone app to control the system, including rocking the bed, speaking to baby, turning on the toy and seeing the baby. Smart baby cradle  will have semi-automated features, as well as manual. The device will combine the features of all the devices mentioned previously, as well as automation to help soothe the baby when the parents are unable to. This will give parents a little more time to do everyday tasks, and reduce the stress on the parent. Some of the devices including:
  • Smart phone remote control
  • Cradle smoothly swing 
  • Mobile toy automated control 
  • Sounds detecting 
  • Webcam monitoring
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Is There A Market?

The smart baby cradle is still in its infant stage. Not many people will opt for this  technology. However, some sides of the world has just started to give it a try especially the western world. But one thing for sure, evolution is coming and we can't run from development.

In the present study, an intelligent baby cradle system was developed. The cradle was capable of detecting the movement of the baby and initiate cradle swing. Additionally, in the event of bedwet or hyperthermia, the developed device is capable of sending SMS. The device can be used to minimize the workload of the parents and nurses in home and hospitals respectively.

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