Monitoring In a High Tech World

My cousin gave us her baby monitor that she used when she had her son. It's one of those walkie-talkie kind of monitors. But I was thinking the other day: wouldn't it be awesome to be able to see and hear the baby from our smartphones? Flick has an iPhone 3GS and I have a Nexus One so we both have the capability to receive streaming audio and video.

I've come across the following solutions so far:

Manu.	Model	Res	Mic	Night	Wireless	App	Cost
Y-cam	Y-cam Knight S	640x480	Yes	30 IR LEDs, 12-15m range	Ethernet, 802.11g	Yes (Android and iOS)	$229 US at Amazon.com
ImogenStudio	The Bambino	640x480	Yes	9 IR LEDs	Proprietary wireless using USB dongle, Windows only	Yes (Android and iOS) by subscription	$89 at Amazon.com
ImogenStudio	The Kerby	640x480	No	Yes	802.11g	Yes (Android and iOS) by subscription	$89 at Amazon.com
Foscam	FI8918W	640x480	Yes	11 IR LEDs, 8m range	802.11g	3rd party iOS and Android	$86.68 US at Amazon.com

I like what I've been reading about Foscam's customer support and responsive to user suggestions. However, a big drawback of the Foscam camera is that it only streams audio in WMA. A reply from their customer service on 2011-03-06 said they were working on supporting non-Windows platforms soon, but this is the same message they have given since October 2010.

There's also a brand new baby monitor camera that even has a humidity and temperature sensor. It's the Withings Smart BabyMonitor but it's not available until the end of March September 2011 so there's no specs or reviews on it yet.

Just found WiFi Baby 3G. Looks like Y-cam is marketing one of their cameras as a baby monitor.

Update (2011-03-22)

• Another IP camera (very expensive): http://www.axis.com/products/cam_m1031w/index.htm
• Android IP camera viewer apps:
• http://hit-mob.com/ip-cam-viewer-android/
• http://www.tinycammonitor.com/

Update (2011-04-09)

• My boss told me about evoz, a baby monitor from Evo. It's in a beta, and supposed to be available in the next two months!