Mimo baby - the first pancake ...?
Being the administrator, one cannot help but become interested in the modern possibilities of monitoring babies, and at the same time try to slightly simplify your life at this tense moment.
In preparation for meeting the second son, time was spent studying options, as a result, one of the Mimo baby monitor systems was purchased and tested in practice.
')
Maybe my experience will come in handy.
On Habré already raised the issue of monitoring babies, for example: For health: 5 gadgets for the little ones .
In August last year, I studied the systems announced at that time:
- Clip on clothes MonBaby - Collect pre-orders, not ready.
- Sock Owlet - Collect pre-orders, not ready.
- Sproutling leg bandage - At the time of selection in August 2014 - only pre-orders. For today (February 2015) all beta is sold out, there are no new releases yet.
- Mimo baby bodik is the only system available for purchase that has been on sale for about a year.
Sell ​​Mimo baby only in the US, so you need to use any mail forwarder, such as spike, to get it here.
Kit
We get this box:
.
Inside the box:
- 3 smallest "kimono" (0-3 months).
- base for charging (it is she who sends data to the Internet via wifi).
- "turtle" - a module that connects to the kimono.
- micro-USB cable to power the base.
- cable audio (used for initial setup of the base on the wifi network).
- instruction.
.
Sensor "turtle" and a seat on the "kimono".
On the turtle, the contacts are made of magnets, so it sits in the landing slot and holds there pretty confidently.
One can see two sensor strips covered with rubber printing, although what exactly they monitor is not entirely clear.
.
On the reverse side: it can be seen that between the sensor strips and the child there are already 2 layers of fabric.
.
The reverse side of the turtle and the base (serials are jammed, since it is for them that the sensors are connected in the application)
.
"Kimono", CB fabric of decent quality. Can be washed in a typewriter, but you can not strongly squeeze and iron.
.
application
The mimo app exists only for android and iphone. There is no universal web access.
The application is placed from the market.
.
After starting and adding the turtle id and base, you can observe the following:
The main screen "Live monitor", on which:
- Status (in this case, "charging")
- Breath monitor
- The sound button.
.
The second tab is "Timeline". It shows the conditional graphics of a child’s sleep
.
Under the schedule, you can deploy alerts and see what happened:
.
In the last tab "Settings" you can see the status of "turtles", its battery ...
.
And set up alerts:
.
Experience of use
Real usage showed a number of flaws. Example: a baby bug shows “normal temperature” and breathing, but the status is still “charging”.
.
On the tablet looks the same. But there is no album mode, you have to look vertically.
In this “screenshot”, there is an almost perfect sinusoid - here you can definitely say that the baby is sleeping.
.
The nuances of use are as follows:
- The radius of operation of the turtle from the base is less than a meter, it starts to weaken already with 50cm and the signal disappears.
Even when shifting to the changing table - the data cease to go, not to mention the feeding and rocking.
- It is not clear when and how the status changes.
The first few days I could see only “Asleep and on Back”, even if the child had already woken up for a couple of minutes, he actively moves his hands and starts crying.
Photographing for the article - received the status of "Charging", although the bug was on the child. I had to poke her on the base and back to change the status to normal.
After writing in support, the status began to change sometimes, but there was no clear detection.
- Breath monitor is not indicative.
If a sinusoid is guaranteed to be a dream, but not a sinusoid, that's all.
Visually large peaks and pauses can be either turning the child or falling asleep, or already awakened and with might and main crying.
- Apparently the temperature sensor is of low accuracy, otherwise why do only the gradation “above normal” - “normal” - “below normal”.
- Timeline is updated not in real time. The schedule appears apparently once a day (for the past day).
I wrote in support, now (it seems) began to appear after each "dream", only the definition of the "sleep" boundary is not very good.
Also the scale in the graph is not signed, so it is not possible to understand which range corresponds to the column.
- Alert is only an entry in the log (below the graph in the Timeline). There is nothing, no buzzing, you will not receive any "notifications" in the usual sense of the word.
- On the android, each time you start the mimo application, you must enter a username and password. At least there is no tick "remember password".
Support said they were aware of this issue and may be resolved.
- Listening to the sound “Listen” comes with a huge amount of noise and cracking sound, through which not only the child’s sniff is heard, but even a conversation at medium volume.
The support suggested that due to the fact that the server is far away "and in general we are not working outside the US, although we are preparing to enter the European market." It seems to me a purely technical problem with the isolation of a microphone in the database.
Selfies:
.
Video showing all that is available:
- You can hear the breath of the child and you can see the breath monitor
- Sleep graphics and alerts
- setup
- Listening to the sound from the room (noise and crackling, in fact).
An example of a bad wake detection: youtu.be/IhTrB5QhPj8
Results
From my point of view, the device turned out to be practically useless. The system does not solve the tasks that could simplify the lives of parents:
- There is no notification that the child is waking up or awake.
- It is impossible to tell whether the child is awake or not from the breath monitor.
- Listening to the sound is useless due to noise and cod.
Unlike mimo, the usual baby monitor (camera + sound) will allow you to track the moment of waking up with 99% accuracy, in order to have time to approach the child before he cries.
The device could be of practical use: notify about the awakening, plan the time of sleep, monitor the temperature and position. But now nothing can be done.
The only relatively useful feature - sleep graphics, implemented poorly.
It would be possible to make a fixed scale of 0: 00-24: 00, then you can compare sleep on different days and roughly imagine what time the child sleeps in time.
It would be possible to make a rile-time sleep scale of high accuracy, so that we could “predict” it, for example, if a child is now 5 minutes in the deep sleep stage, then we have another 10..20 minutes of rest.
These are the "expectations vs reality."
PS Please forgive mistakes, you can sleep for three hours, write about them in private.
In preparation for meeting the second son, time was spent studying options, as a result, one of the Mimo baby monitor systems was purchased and tested in practice.
')
Maybe my experience will come in handy.
On Habré already raised the issue of monitoring babies, for example: For health: 5 gadgets for the little ones .
In August last year, I studied the systems announced at that time:
- Clip on clothes MonBaby - Collect pre-orders, not ready.
- Sock Owlet - Collect pre-orders, not ready.
- Sproutling leg bandage - At the time of selection in August 2014 - only pre-orders. For today (February 2015) all beta is sold out, there are no new releases yet.
- Mimo baby bodik is the only system available for purchase that has been on sale for about a year.
Sell ​​Mimo baby only in the US, so you need to use any mail forwarder, such as spike, to get it here.
Kit
We get this box:
.Inside the box:
- 3 smallest "kimono" (0-3 months).
- base for charging (it is she who sends data to the Internet via wifi).
- "turtle" - a module that connects to the kimono.
- micro-USB cable to power the base.
- cable audio (used for initial setup of the base on the wifi network).
- instruction.
.Sensor "turtle" and a seat on the "kimono".
On the turtle, the contacts are made of magnets, so it sits in the landing slot and holds there pretty confidently.
One can see two sensor strips covered with rubber printing, although what exactly they monitor is not entirely clear.
.On the reverse side: it can be seen that between the sensor strips and the child there are already 2 layers of fabric.
.The reverse side of the turtle and the base (serials are jammed, since it is for them that the sensors are connected in the application)
."Kimono", CB fabric of decent quality. Can be washed in a typewriter, but you can not strongly squeeze and iron.
.application
The mimo app exists only for android and iphone. There is no universal web access.
The application is placed from the market.
.After starting and adding the turtle id and base, you can observe the following:
The main screen "Live monitor", on which:
- Status (in this case, "charging")
- Breath monitor
- The sound button.
.The second tab is "Timeline". It shows the conditional graphics of a child’s sleep
.Under the schedule, you can deploy alerts and see what happened:
.In the last tab "Settings" you can see the status of "turtles", its battery ...
.And set up alerts:
.Experience of use
Real usage showed a number of flaws. Example: a baby bug shows “normal temperature” and breathing, but the status is still “charging”.
.On the tablet looks the same. But there is no album mode, you have to look vertically.
In this “screenshot”, there is an almost perfect sinusoid - here you can definitely say that the baby is sleeping.
.The nuances of use are as follows:
- The radius of operation of the turtle from the base is less than a meter, it starts to weaken already with 50cm and the signal disappears.
Even when shifting to the changing table - the data cease to go, not to mention the feeding and rocking.
- It is not clear when and how the status changes.
The first few days I could see only “Asleep and on Back”, even if the child had already woken up for a couple of minutes, he actively moves his hands and starts crying.
Photographing for the article - received the status of "Charging", although the bug was on the child. I had to poke her on the base and back to change the status to normal.
After writing in support, the status began to change sometimes, but there was no clear detection.
- Breath monitor is not indicative.
If a sinusoid is guaranteed to be a dream, but not a sinusoid, that's all.
Visually large peaks and pauses can be either turning the child or falling asleep, or already awakened and with might and main crying.
- Apparently the temperature sensor is of low accuracy, otherwise why do only the gradation “above normal” - “normal” - “below normal”.
- Timeline is updated not in real time. The schedule appears apparently once a day (for the past day).
I wrote in support, now (it seems) began to appear after each "dream", only the definition of the "sleep" boundary is not very good.
Also the scale in the graph is not signed, so it is not possible to understand which range corresponds to the column.
- Alert is only an entry in the log (below the graph in the Timeline). There is nothing, no buzzing, you will not receive any "notifications" in the usual sense of the word.
- On the android, each time you start the mimo application, you must enter a username and password. At least there is no tick "remember password".
Support said they were aware of this issue and may be resolved.
- Listening to the sound “Listen” comes with a huge amount of noise and cracking sound, through which not only the child’s sniff is heard, but even a conversation at medium volume.
The support suggested that due to the fact that the server is far away "and in general we are not working outside the US, although we are preparing to enter the European market." It seems to me a purely technical problem with the isolation of a microphone in the database.
Selfies:
.Video showing all that is available:
- You can hear the breath of the child and you can see the breath monitor
- Sleep graphics and alerts
- setup
- Listening to the sound from the room (noise and crackling, in fact).
An example of a bad wake detection: youtu.be/IhTrB5QhPj8
Results
From my point of view, the device turned out to be practically useless. The system does not solve the tasks that could simplify the lives of parents:
- There is no notification that the child is waking up or awake.
- It is impossible to tell whether the child is awake or not from the breath monitor.
- Listening to the sound is useless due to noise and cod.
Unlike mimo, the usual baby monitor (camera + sound) will allow you to track the moment of waking up with 99% accuracy, in order to have time to approach the child before he cries.
The device could be of practical use: notify about the awakening, plan the time of sleep, monitor the temperature and position. But now nothing can be done.
The only relatively useful feature - sleep graphics, implemented poorly.
It would be possible to make a fixed scale of 0: 00-24: 00, then you can compare sleep on different days and roughly imagine what time the child sleeps in time.
It would be possible to make a rile-time sleep scale of high accuracy, so that we could “predict” it, for example, if a child is now 5 minutes in the deep sleep stage, then we have another 10..20 minutes of rest.
These are the "expectations vs reality."
PS Please forgive mistakes, you can sleep for three hours, write about them in private.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/366227/
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