What Should You Know About The Baby Monitor

 Baby Monitors became the must haves for modern parents. This item allows a parent keep an eye on their baby while they are in another room. There are many different suppliers on the market like Fisher-Price, Graco, Summer Infant, Home Sentry (Safe Baby), Philips, Sony, Levana. All of these offer quality products and technology.

There are many options you can find, many different models on the market. You should decide what type of monitors is right for you and your baby.

Baby Monitors types:

Video Monitors will allow you to view your baby. They can be available in black/white or colour, and have a huge range of features (DECT or digital technology, talk back, light sounds, pan/scan, zoom and infra red (night vision)).

Audio Monitors will allow you to listen to your baby. They are available in both analogue or digital and similar to video monitors, also have features as light sounds, talk back, DECT, lullabies.

Movement monitors (Breathing Effort monitors) typically in either portable or non portable models. The portables designed to fix on the nappy or clothing and track the breathing effort. The non portable models have a sensor mat whicj lays under the babies mattress to pick up movement.

Most baby monitors operate on the frequencies 49 MHz, 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz. One of the problems is that other electronics also use these same frequencies and they can cause interference with each other. There is also one other frequency 1.9 GHz (DECT), which has also been approved for baby monitors to work on. However you can find cordless phones working on the same frequency. So make sure that you check the frequency the baby monitor works on before buying and compare this with electronic equipment at your home. If you have cordless phone or wireless network that both work on the 2.4 GHz frequency you should look at a monitor that Works in the 49 MHz or 900 MHz to reduce interference.