Smart crib automatically rocks babies to sleep
Got a newborn baby in the house?
Forget your forty winks.
But one set of parents is hoping to change that, with their invention, Cradlewise.
It’s a smart crib designed to rock your baby back to sleep – with the help of AI.
It’s cradle that combines, a baby monitor, rocker, bassinet and crib all in one.
Cradlewise co-founders Radhika and Bharath Patil put their electronic engineering backgrounds together to create the smart crib…
as a way to get their own disrupted sleep patterns back on track when they had their first child.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) RADHIKA PATIL, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF CRADLEWISE, SAYING:
"So the centerpiece of Cradlewise is sensing meets soothing. So we have a baby monitor that's looking at the baby and detecting the early signs of wake-up, and it starts, it actuates the rocking as well. All the modern day baby monitors, they just inform you that the baby has woken up, and that doesn't help because already the baby has started crying and the parents then have to go and soothe and it takes a much longer time to soothe the baby, so the center of this is the baby monitoring is integrated with the cradle. Also, the learning part, it's just not sensing but it's also learning every day as the baby is growing and adapting to its needs."
The sensing feature stems from the use of AI.
The crib learns and logs the baby's sleep patterns, and monitors for any breathing and physical movements indicative of disrupted sleep.
It also records how much rocking is needed for the baby to fall back asleep, and can play a range of soothing music based on the settings.
Much of this learning data is then stored in a smartphone app.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) BHARATH PATIL, CO-FOUNDER AND CTO OF CRADLEWISE, SAYING:
"Once you put the baby in, the crib takes care of everything. That's the aim. But of course sometimes you need to intervene, sometimes you need to change some settings, that's why we have the app."
A Cradlewise crib is currently available for pre-order for $999, and is only available in northern California’s Bay Area for now, with plans to expand across the U.S. next year.
