Connected cribs: when baby monitoring becomes a technological objective
Childcare is not shunned by technology, far from it. To reassure or help young parents in their daily tasks, innovations are springing up here and there. Among them: connected cradles. If they are not new, the trend seems to be growing a little more and the aisles of CES 2025 in Las Vegas have a few of them. Two are off the beaten track.
An automatic cradle to put baby to sleep
The Rise, from the manufacturer Elvie, is a 2-in-1. The device is both a deck chair and a cradle. In its first form, the Rise rocks the baby independently to help them calm down and fall asleep. Once strapped into the bouncer, the parent can start the swings via the control panel located on the Rise.
The Elvie Rise is both a deckchair and a cradle.
An application is also available to manage movements. It is possible to start and stop them remotely and manage their speed and amplitude. A personalized mode also allows the parent to swing the Rise themselves to record this cadence and automatically maintain it afterwards.
Once baby is asleep, the connected deckchair transforms into a cradle. The transition would be as smooth as possible so as not to wake him. This versatility allows parents to put their child to sleep and then place them in a lying position – recommended when sleeping – without waking them. The Elvie Rise records the time spent in cradle mode, and therefore normally the sleeping time. A sensor detects the presence of the baby in the cradle and until his parents remove him.
It transforms into a cradle once baby is asleep.
The baby's monitoring is very brief, but allows you to count the hours of sleep. Others can be added manually through the app.
The Rise cradle is battery operated. It can therefore be easily moved. On the other hand, only 3 to 4 hours of swinging are possible; which is a bit weak. Regardless, interested parents will have to pay $800.
A connected bed to monitor your child from all angles
In the corridors of CES 2025, Bosch is also exhibiting a connected cradle. Its purpose is quite different: monitoring baby while he sleeps.
The arm overhanging the bed provides a lot of information on the baby's health.
To do this, the bed is topped with an arm equipped with a lot of technology. A camera monitors the child and transmits the images live to the application or other connected objects in the house.
The arm also has a bunch of sensors. The bed measures the ambient temperature and humidity in the room and a microphone records the baby's noises. If he wakes up, you can play a lullaby remotely to calm him down.
Information on baby's health can be consulted on an application specially developed by Bosch.
To go even further, the Bosch bed is capable of measuring the baby's heart rate and breathing. As with the images filmed by the camera, all this data is transmitted directly to the application. If the aim of this connected bed is to reassure young parents, we can still ask ourselves the question of extreme surveillance of the child, even at the risk of creating more stress than anything else.
