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Nanit Baby Monitor — Smart baby monitor that tracks sleep using computer vision
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@geoffreyweg Thanks for the comments and critique. Parenting is unique for everyone and certain features appeal to different people. We've designed a product that hopefully will provide the best user experience while also providing valuable features that certain parents want.
@geoffreyweg thanks Geoffrey for sharing your thoughts. Parenting is around exploration, finding the best for your kid. We are trying to make this exploring easier for you, so you could reach your sweet spot of your parenting style in an easier way. May I ask how eventually you succeed in putting your daughter to sleep?
Ok - super intrigued by this. We had been using a NestCam and between Janky connectivity and frequent outages during Nest updates, found it totally unreliable. If it's a stand that goes next to the crib, how do you prevent a kid from grabbing it and giving it a pull? My troublemaking 18mo would constantly be playing with it if it's in her reach.
@kylejudah The stand has been tested with that specific scenario in mind. The legs are weighted to prevent the stand from tipping. Additionally, while not apparent, the stand is 171cm off the ground to help prevent your troublemaker from grabbing it.
@kylejudah Great question! we have taken extra safety and security steps to the extreme with Nanit. The camera arm was designed to be above a certain height such that 95-99th percentile of kids at the age of 2 won't be able to reach it when they raise their hands. As a side note, here is a link to a pic of my kid Udi raising his hands to check the camera hight in one of the first experiments ;)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.p...
Here you can learn more on Nanit Safe and Security features: https://www.nanit.com/safety-and...
I'm a new mom-to-be who lives in SF, works in tech, and is supremely paranoid and OCD about everything. Nanit sounds like a great way to collect data about our kid, and I'm sure that it appeals even more to my data-minded husband. :) As I work in security, I appreciate the end to end data encryption, the disabled two-way radio, video streaming to only authenticated devices, and the fact that Nanit is HIPPA compliant.
Is there a version in the works for adults? Not joking, if you could improve my quality of sleep, and thus life, I'd pay you $300 in a heartbeat.
@shloky Let's see what the market wants. We're a technology company at heart, and I wouldn't rule that out for the future.
This is a very nice product in the right direction. I have the same history of @geoffreyweg with our first child. What would make this product killer for me is to merge the vision with something more interesting than a shiny motion tracker. One of the biggest fears of an newborn is whether he is breathing or not, or he has fever over night (it happens). If you can integrate a tech from http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub... this becomes a no-brainer buy for me at least.
Best of luck in your product launch!
There are some really clever product design ideas wrapped up in Nanit. Many of the new parents I know are using a Nest Camera in place of the traditional baby monitor which has a lot of upside (e.g. being able to check it when one parent is at work). There is also a whole separate line of products that are effectively "fitbit for babies" where they monitor sleep, movement, diaper changes. Combining these two things into a single product that handles both is really nice. Especially since you can avoid needing a fitbit style device to be on the baby at all times, which is quite a hassle.
@jkupferman Thanks for your comment, Jonathan! We spoke with many, many parents throughout the design phase and we continually heard complaints about wearable baby monitors. A lot of parents were frustrated by them getting in the way when they were changing their baby's diaper or clothing, and some parents simply didn't want them anywhere near their child in the first place. We believe the fact that we can provide in-depth sleep analytics from a camera alone, without a wearable, will highly intrigue a lot of new parents.
Our team was Wareness.io loved working on this launch. The team is top notch and parents themselves. We originally got interested in Nanit because it enabled a tremendous amount of insights without the need for attaching anything to a newborn. No wearable required. Secondly the mobile app experience is really cool and provides 'co-parenting' so all modern families can be better parents and learn and communicate together.
@vijaychattha Thanks Vijay! You and your team have been fantastic to work with too!
Nice. I'm curious how @msuster got involved and how is the company handling security (a main concern for me as a parent)?
@parkeragee @msuster Hi Parker. Mark Suster led our Seed round last year and he has been a huge champion of us throughout our stealth phase. Regarding your question about security, I am a mom of two kids (13 and 11), so I can relate. Indeed, almost everyone on the team here has children. This is going to sound like marketing speak, but in truth, almost every decision about our product started from our understanding -- through research and personal experience -- of this life stage. Here are a few examples: (1) we actively chose to disable to two way speaker so no one can speak to your baby via a microphone, (2) we're using 256 bit encryption, (3) we're HiPPA compliant. You can read more about our approach here: https://www.nanit.com/safety-and.... Or feel free to shoot us more questions as you have them.
Parenting is a very personal thing. Having raised 3 babies without any tech support (and in the 2000's, no less) I feel I would not be in the market for this. Yet I can understand how reassuring it can be for anxious parents - borderlining control freaks, maybe.
Upvoted as the design looks great.
@degrems Thanks for the upvote. We totally agree with you, parenting is a very personal thing and everyone's style is different. I appreciate the comments on design, we've put a lot of effort in creating the perfectly designed product.
@deambulando With Nanit you get a few more things than just the analytics. You're getting a stand (one of the biggest problems we've found through design research), our smart illumination feature (nightlight) and our white noise feature. Thus, while yes, we are more expensive, you're really getting a lot more product for the money (things that most parents buy).
Maybe I'm old school or something but I am absolutely not comfortable with my baby staring up into a giant all seeing camera lens for most of their crib life. I guess times have changed.
@mibi I appreciate your comment. Most people today are using video baby monitors. One of the biggest challenges we found were that people did not know how to position/mount the video baby monitor. By mounting it in this way, we've solved one of the biggest challenges we've heard from parents. We've also created a much safer product by positioning it this way with a better view point.
@andrew_berman I get that. But there is just something about the way your product is designed, vs other cameras on the market, that make it look like its from some dystopian sci-fi novel. I almost expect a red Hal-9000 like glow to come from its eye.
@mibi I appreciate the comments. We're very focused on design and user experience - we believe this design provides the best user experience.
This product has completely changed the game for me and my wife. Our 2 year old has been a beta tester and it transformed not only his sleep, but also ours. The analytics are incredible and opened our eyes to insights about his sleep that we never knew existed. LOVE nanit!
@aholidayiii Thanks Aaron! Your family has been so helpful throughout the beta testing process and we're thrilled that Nanit has helped you understand and improve your little one's sleep, and get some more of your own. :)
Any thoughts to a dedicated hardware monitor? My wife and I originally tried a nest cam with our daughter, but the app crashed over night and we didn't hear her crying for over an hour one night. The next day we returned the nest cam.
@evancmorris We've thought about that use case. However, currently, we're focused on shipping our first product. We hope that with Nanit's features you won't have to be constantly watching the live video stream, thus eliminating the need for the dedicated monitor.
The product seems cool. The copyrighting is also awesome. "Get a PhD in sleep." made me smile :)
We're currently using a Nest cam as a baby monitor and it's pretty awesome. How does the video quality & night vision compare? Also, I might have missed it, but how is it mounted?
@mattpickle_ Thanks! The video quality and night vision are of great quality and was designed specifically to be a baby camera and optimized for this. The camera is being sold with a floor stand that is being placed between the crib and the wall (next to the crib)
@torkale Man, I'm really tempted to buy this. I really like the temp, humidity, and heat map. It says if the internet goes down, it will still stream? I don't store video with Nest, so not really interested in looking at past video.
@metapickle many security cams do not work on home network when Internet goes down. Imagine yourself cooking at the kitchen, your kid is crying upstairs, and you don't get the sound notification you are expecting for at these situations. It is unacceptable from the parent perspective, and with our product it just won't happen.
@assafg agree 100%. Does this mean that I could run the cam all the time without sending video through your servers? That would be a huge selling point.
@adelynzhou Thanks Adelyn! This is just the start for our technology! We really appreciate your support.
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