Monai’s Monai Baby is a Wi-Fi baby camera built around computer-vision alerts: auto-tracking, covered-face detection, cry detection, “danger zone” proximity warnings, and smart voice prompts that tell you when to check in. The demo also highlights higher-resolution capture (they mention 4K capability) with a phone-first app for remote viewing and shared caregiving. https://monaibaby.com/products/monai-wifi-smart-baby-monitor
A big focus is sleep analytics: the app turns continuous video into timelines of awake vs asleep, longest sleep, sleep counts, and day-level summaries, plus “moments capture” that auto-clips key scenes so you’re not scrubbing through hours of footage. Technically it’s a mix of motion, posture, and occlusion cues, with event scoring to reduce noisy notifications and keep context in the record.
Hardware is shown in multiple configurations, including a battery-backed “monitor nest” that drops onto a pogo-pin charging dock so you can move the camera between rooms without re-cabling. A flexible “crab” mount helps set tight angles while still supporting vertical tracking as the baby shifts in a crib or play area. On-camera pricing for the standard monitor with mount is $129, with a slightly higher tier discussed for a February launch.
The same stack extends into a travel-friendly smart crib (referred to publicly as the Monai Sleepod Baby Crib): a collapsible, luggage-style frame with a camera “stick” plus additional sensors aimed at heart rate, breathing, temperature, fever alerts, and longer-term growth tracking. Filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, the pitch is multi-sensor fusion—video plus cardiopulmonary/thermal signals—to flag covered-face risk, climbing-out risk, and other safety states that are hard to infer from video alone. They describe an April launch in China first, then the US and Europe.
For parents, the interesting engineering questions are reliability and privacy: what runs on-device versus in the cloud, how microSD local storage is managed, and how false positives are handled when blankets, lighting, or fast motion confuse vision models. Because Monai is positioning the system as “always on” but portable, Wi-Fi stability and sensible alert thresholds matter as much as resolution. If you’re evaluating it, watch notification granularity, caregiver sharing controls, and how quickly the system recovers after a disconnect.
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