Are you broadcasting your child?
June 1st, 2008
My partner asked me today if there was a baby channel.
“A what?” I said?
She was in the kitchen attempting to tune the kitchen TV into the WiFi video sender unit that was broadcasting from the front room. On the screen was a picture of a sleeping baby.
The WiFi video sender comes with 3 preset channels. The image was being broadcast on channel 3.
“It’s not a baby channel” I said. “Someone has a baby monitor that is utilising WiFi”.
The picture on our screen was of a neighbours sleeping baby. Taking a guess, I nipped outside and introduced myself to some neighbours that had recently moved into the area. They have a baby, and they are now aware that their baby monitor is broadcasting into the street.
I do like the idea of being able to keep an eye on your baby while you are out of the room, but it might be a good idea if these video baby monitors used some form of signal protection so that only you are the one receiving the signal.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Most video senders do not use wifi, although they will use the same frequency bands as wifi. It’s easy to transmit a PAL composite feed via wireless, but a whole lot harder, and more expensive to do it with wifi.