With a baby monitor, parents want to make sure that nothing happens to their little ones. In baby monitor tests, the device sometimes shows itself as a risk factor: low-radiation products are rare.
A baby monitor provides acoustic monitoring for the child: the baby has a device with a microphone and a transmitter, and a loudspeaker with a receiver for the parents. It is clear that the baby monitor must somehow transmit - and this is the problem.
Baby monitor test: wireless always generates radiation
- Analog radio-controlled baby monitors typically have selectable channels and are similar to simple walkie-talkies. Their problem is that they work unencrypted, you can sometimes get in the neighboring radio and the voice quality is lower, so you can sometimes not hear exactly what the baby is saying.
- Digitally sparkling baby monitors are reliable and easier to understand. However, they are mostly based on DECT technology, which is also known from telephone handsets. It is very reliable, but at the same time the devices are considered to be stronger and usually continuously shining.
- Cordless phones that can also work as baby monitors or baby monitors that transmit a video image are very modern. Sounds great, but is mostly based on DECT radio.
- Baby monitor apps are based on nearby cell phones - worse than better.
- Some baby monitors send via the household circuit: the transmitter feeds the signal into the mains via its mains plug, which is converted into noise on the opposite side via the mains plug of the receiver. This is not possible in every household (depending on the electrical system installed), can be disturbed by household appliances and forces the baby monitor to be plugged into a socket.
Particularly low-radiation baby monitors that transmit the signal via wire are practically no longer to be found today, but they would be the only sensible ones from a health perspective. However, very few would want to exchange wireless convenience for a 50-meter cable drum.