Our Dream

Our dream is the future, where our clothing will be "smart", filled with tiny sensors and will monitor our bodies, not unlike sensors in modern cars.

Our first step is a smart button and our first project is to fit a baby monitor in a button :)

Monbaby is an award winning sleep monitor that looks like a button. It can be attached to any article of clothing.

It snaps on just as easily to your father’s favorite pajamas as to your newborn's onesies and applicable to all ages.

However, we decided to implement this technology for parents of newborns first.

Monbaby sends baby's breathing movements to your smartphone.

Using this product you will satisfy your curiosity about your children's sleeping patterns and habits. Your phone screen shows in real time how they are sleeping right now. Each morning you will see if they slept well through the night, or if they tossed and fussed more than usual. You can use this product to analyze sleep patterns of your kids and get recommendations on how to improve their sleep.

Parents can activate alerts on conditions they are particularly concerned about.

Our story

The story of Monbaby started when I had my first son. I remember that I could not sleep worrying how he slept through the night, if he fussed more than usual or slept fine. Back then I could only wish there was a sleep analyzer product and app on the market.

For the past two years my team and I worked on this product. Finally, Monbaby is a fully functional prototype in its 5th iteration, almost ready for manufacturing at a local facility in NJ. We hope with your help this product will become reality.

Our "smart button" product recently won a prize in the Wearable Technologies conference in Munich this year, in Clothing category.

This product also was a finalist in the IWC Bluetooth competition in 2012 and was invited to a Freescale booth in CES 2012 in Las Vegas.

How it works

On a technical side, it is a wearable accelerometer based sensor that measures motion and movements or lack thereof, along with position, orientation, activity levels all while detecting breathing and falls. 

Measurements are done in real-time, 5 times per second and transmitted over Bluetooth (4.0) Low Energy to a smartphone app (iPhone), which displays information about in a convenient, easy-to-understand manner. The sensor is powered by 3V coin-cell battery giving 5 weeks of constant use and 1 year in passive mode. The antenna range of 200 ft easily covers a large house.

A smartphone re-transmits signals over WIFI/CELL to a computer in the cloud, where data is stored in a database and can be shared with others over a web-page. A much more sophisticated analysis is applied in the backend.

I am certain that same quantitative methods that work so well in the finance industry can and should be applied to sleep analysis. Our team combined more than 20 years of experience of working on cutting edge IT tech gives us a unique perspective and an analytical edge.

With this funding, here's what we will do

The data we collect with this technology are used in a context of sleep analysis and sleep monitoring of your children. This product is the first and the most important step in this path. We have a lot of plans for this technology and we want to ask for your feedback. What are other potential benefits of having the data about your sleep at your fingertips.

We are also working on a backend technology that will store data collected by those devices. If we raise enough money, we will be able to store this data for you. You will be able to share the sleeping logs with your friends, family or an expert of your choice.

In our day and age, our cars contain a great many sensors that constantly monitor car's status and performance, whereas our bodies lack these mechanisms. We dream that in the future it will change and change fast. Many wearable sensors in our clothing will aggregate data into a personal dashboard. 

This campaign will take us a step closer towards future real-time, ongoing aggregation of data about our bodies and turning it into useful knowledge and information!