Baby monitors have come quite some way since the earliest models. And now there is the Philips DECT baby monitor, which has many high tech features that add significantly to a parent’s confidence. It performs in both directions; therefore you can look at your baby in her nursery, hear her and speak to her. It monitors temperature, permits listening in without static, and offers temperature readings. Apart from that, it has a range of 900 feet.
This digital baby monitor features a lovely design with its sleek monitor and nylon travel case. All the components come fitted in a modular plastic frame, which consists of the transmitter and a parental receiver which is simplistic in design and operation.
The Philips DECT baby monitor comes with a pictorial guidebook that makes installation of both the baby unit and the parental receiver simple. The parental unit just requires to be charged for a few hours before it starts to function. The baby monitor and parental unit link up via radio waves and the linking is seen as lights blinking via the synchronization process.
This DECT baby monitor features Digital Enhanced Cordless Technology, which allows zero interference in communications. It ought to be kept at a distance of 2 feet from the baby in order to be protected from any microwaves. The best part is that it doesn’t eavesdrop on other conversations or get disturbed by telephone conversations like other cordless technology.
The monitor provides secure communication on 60 radio channels, which it continually monitors to ensure dependable communication with the baby. There are many interesting features on this device: it sings lullabies to the baby, has a nightlight and even has a remote control, allowing you to watch over the baby while you are in a far-off room.
All it requires is manipulating the LCD screen buttons, like the menu button which takes you up and down the menu. There is a talk back on the monitor, the volume of which is adjustable; this means that you can coo and speak to your baby even at a distance, like speaking into a walkie-talkie.
You can look after your little angel from anywhere in the house or the backyard, take a bath or cook dinner. The DECT baby monitor is equipped with a temperature gauge which monitors the nursery’s temperature and if the temperature exceeds the set limit it buzzes to notify you by way of the parental receiver.
The monitor plays lullabies in a loop of five minutes, each lullaby is 30 seconds long and sounds like the ones you hear on the mobiles you hang in the crib. There are nightlights that allow you to pay a visit to the baby at night in the semi darkness. Another feature is that the whole unit charges by rechargeable batteries. In terms of baby monitors, it doesn’t get much more sophisticated than the Philips DECT.