Our Picks for the Best Baby Monitor

Baby Touch

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Motorola Digital

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Angelcare

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How to buy a baby monitor – Needs, uses, features, and what to look for:

Buying the best baby monitor can be simple and easy, or can be daunting and difficult, its all really just a matter of perspective, and how much you know about electronics and frequency bands. Most baby monitors use a frequency range of about 49MHz, to 2.4GHz. The thing that makes buying baby monitors difficult though is understanding how to avoid receiving interference from other electronic devices that use the same, or similar frequencies. Recently, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) approved the use of a new frequency. This new frequency is used solely for “voice only” communications, and is 1.9GHz, which is called “Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications”, or “DECT” for short. Whats great about this frequency range is that it isnt used by many other electronics aside from baby monitors, which drastically decreases the chances of other electronic devices competing with the baby monitor for the frequency range.

What to look for:

1. DECT – Make sure that first and foremost, your desired baby monitor uses the DECT frequency band mentioned about. This is best to ensure your monitor will not interfere with other electronic devices.

2. Frequency Bands – Compare and contrast the frequency band of your desired baby monitor, to that of the other electronic devices in your house (I.E Cordless phone, and any other cordless device), to prevent any signal interference.

3. Receivers – Make sure that your desired unit has a minimum of two receivers. Having two receivers will allow you to have an additional receiver somewhere in the household.

4. LED – Check to see if your desired unit has LED’s, that are sound activated. These will be great when your environment becomes noisy (loud TV, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, etc.), because the lights on the monitor will flash, alarming you of noise being made.

5. Batteries – Make sure that your desired monitor has batteries that are rechargable. Rechargable batteries will save you both the time of constantly making the trip to the local department store, as well as save you the money from having to constantly replace the batteries.

6. Returns – Make sure that prior to purchasing the monitor, you are aware of the return policy. Sometimes there are times where your monitor just cant co-exist with your other electronic devices, and in the event that that is true, you want to be sure that you can get your money back.