New Dad Jason Kridner (jkridner ) of BeagleBoard.org writes about a Smart Baby Monitor project that he is building with the BeagleBoard:
Baby monitor using beaglebone and mimo smart baby monitor sensor
I’m a new dad and consider myself a technology innovator, so it is probably to be expected that I’d look for high-tech ways to monitor my baby, beyond the standard remote cameras. Of course, not all the ways I want to monitor are really easy to reproduce, but the folks at Rest Devices have done something scalable. They created the MIMO Smart Baby Monitor. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy to send data back from the sensor, making it very easy to connect to a BeagleBone Black using a BLE dongle
I thought that Jason's motivation was interesting:
The most critical reason I chose to do this is because I don’t want to rely on a cloud service to monitor my child. While I appreciate having the phone app and relatively reliable proxy of the Rest Devices provided cloud service, I really wanted to make sure I had reliable monitoring and notifications within the home, not depending on any network other than between my BeagleBone and the sensor itself.
cheers,
drew
