Can you imagine not being aware of how many times your baby has pee to make sure it is hydrated or open the diaper a little to know if it is wet?
Well, it is already a reality. Pampers has just announced that in autumn it will launch a new 'connected care' system, called Lumi, which includes a smart diaper sensor and a baby monitor with Wi-fi. Through an app, parents keep track of how many diapers the baby uses per day and let them know when the baby needs to be changed., among other notifications.
What is the smart diaper?
The sensor not only alerts parents through a notification in the application (available for iPhone and Android) when the diaper is wet and needs to be changed. It also reports if the baby is sleeping or not.
In addition, collect and process all that data. In this way parents can have quantitative information about the baby's activity, how long he has been awake, how much has happened since the last time he changed his diaper ...
The system is completed with a high-definition wide-angle camera Logitech It also connects to the app so that parents can see their baby remotely via mobile at any time.
It has night vision and also measures the temperature and humidity of the room.
Advance or lack of privacy?
This new advance of the 'baby tech' industry has been possible thanks to the alliance of Procter & Gamble, a group to which Pamper belongs, with Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google), and Logitech.
Mandy Treeby, spokesperson for Pampers, says in the Washington Post that "The goal of the system is to relieve the stress of new parents, and the feedback from those who have tried the system so far has been positive."
In Babies and more Technology, apps and other inventions to stimulate or understand the baby: when our parents instinct is canceledIn addition, he explains that Lumi encrypts all data and uses "the same security standard as the financial services industry", to prevent unauthorized access to the systems and guarantee the privacy of the child.
And, with the data obtained from the monitoring of their baby, parents can also produce daily and weekly charts and statistics, which opens up the possibility for companies to use that data.
At the moment Pampers has announced that the system will begin to operate in the United States and has already opened a waiting list to take over it, although it has not yet provided its selling price.
If you want to know more about how Lumi works, you can watch the explanatory video of the company (in English).
More smart diapers
Lumi is not the first to use high-tech diapers. In 2016, Google Alphabet's parent company patented "a diaper sensor to detect and differentiate feces and urine". Last year, Huggies partnered with the Korean company Monit to launch an intelligent diaper sensor in Korea and Japan.
The risk of so many ordinary objects becoming 'smart' is that it makes them dependent on software updates and malfunctions or that a product loses its connectivity if a company stops working or interrupts the line.
In Babies and more This is the ranking of the best baby diapers, according to the OCUAt least with the new Pampers, if the sensor stops working, you still have ... normal diapers.
Photos | Procter & Gamble
