Buying A Baby Monitor? Here's How To Do It!

By Sofia Andrade


When you were young, you may have used your parents baby monitor to secretly tap into the phone conversations your neighbors were having, and that was pretty much the most advanced thing a baby monitor could do. But today, baby monitors have become far more advanced than to simply pick up and transmit sounds. And even more advanced monitoring is done with video. Finding the right monitoring system can be difficult at first, because there are so many options. You may even be thinking "Are you kidding me? Baby monitors are simple!", but the fact remains that with the technology advances today, there is more to think about than whether or not there will be too much feedback interferences. Here are some of the things that you should think about when you go shopping for your family's next infant monitoring system.

The first thing you can do is find out what products have been used by people in your family and anyone else you know. Someone might tell you, for example, to not even consider a certain type of monitor because of some crucial flaw. This kind of research can be quite helpful, and can tell you a great deal about which monitors are the best value. There is a possible bonus to this type of inquiry: you may receive a monitor as a gift from someone who is finished with theirs. Then you wouldn't even have to worry about shopping around to find the best monitor! Always ask for specific information about the monitors. Sometimes people will give you vague or general answers about something; these won't help you make the right decision.

Choose your frequency carefully. Many inexpensive baby monitors will operate at a 49MHz frequency. You'll get a lot of other radio frequency interference at 49 mhz. These are the systems that will also try to field calls from your neighbors cordless phones, pick up conversations had on cell phones by passing drivers and, potentially even your neighbors' monitoring system. More costly monitors which are of higher quality and different frequencies won't pose these issues. However, you can side-step these problems by getting a monitor operating at 2.4 Ghz.

How extensive do you need your system to be? If you are living in a small home, you may not even have room for a more extensive system, which is why you might need something more along the lines of a base station or single receiver setup. If you have more space available, you may want to choose a system which has multiple receivers, especially if you will be moving around rooms a lot or if you have more than one person living in your home. It's important to note that some multiple receivers have the option of both inbound and outbound communication, which may be useful if you have many people residing in your home. Having more than one receiver will also allow you to monitor your child in more than one room without having to worry about carrying something around with you-which is handy if you have more than one child!

Remember that you should take everything into consideration when you want to buy your monitor, and should assess what kinds of features you want to begin with. Also, you should consider the warranty and lifetime expectancy of your system as well, so that you can get the most out of it, especially if you are planning on having more children in the future. Remember that the type of monitor you will need depends on your whole family, and once you know what you want, all you need to do after this is find the right monitor which can do what you need it to do, and you'll finally be set!




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