Nursery based devices with connectivity to IoT ecosystem
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current audio and video monitors for infants do not provide comprehensive safety information, particularly regarding inaudible or invisible threats such as harmful gases and non-ideal air conditions, which can affect infant safety during sleep training.
Innovation Solution
A smart nursery system that includes an infant soother with a projector for light therapy, a humidifier with sensors, an air purifier with sensors, and a monitor application for IoT connectivity, allowing for real-time monitoring and control of environmental conditions to ensure a safe sleep environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If audio and video monitors are used to watch over infants during sleep training, then parents can monitor their child from a separate location, but these monitors do not provide information about inaudible or invisible threats such as harmful gases and non-ideal air conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple monitoring functions into a single integrated smart nursery system. The air quality monitor, humidity sensor, temperature sensor, and audio/video monitoring capabilities are merged into one cohesive device that provides comprehensive environmental safety information without requiring multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart nursery monitor is designed as a multi-functional device that simultaneously performs audio monitoring, video monitoring, air quality detection, humidity sensing, temperature sensing, and connectivity to parental devices. This universal approach allows one device to replace multiple specialized devices while providing comprehensive safety information.
2Reliability
If multiple separate devices are used to monitor different environmental parameters (air quality, humidity, temperature), then comprehensive safety information can be obtained, but the device complexity and system integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple sensing capabilities (air quality sensors, humidity sensors, temperature sensors) and monitoring functions (audio, video) into a single unified smart nursery device. This merging reduces the number of separate devices needed while maintaining comprehensive safety monitoring coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart nursery monitor acts as an intermediary device that collects data from multiple sensors, processes the information, and communicates with parental devices through wireless connectivity. This intermediary role simplifies the system architecture by providing a central hub that manages all monitoring functions and data transmission.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system helps establish a circadian rhythm through light and sound, while monitoring and controlling air quality and humidity, providing comprehensive safety and sleep training assistance for infants.
Implementation Method 1
the projector is adapted to project a first light configuration onto a surface and transition to at least a second light configuration
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure presents infant soothing devices which provide timed, color, and intensity controlled light and sound projections to assist in sleep therapy. The devices may be part of a smart nursery which has a number of electronically connected devices which communicate with a central electronic application to gather information and provide operation instructions to the devices. The smart nursery may be connected to a larger network to provide feedback and controllability outside of the nursery.