Smart watch for kids: how to choose?
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What parents don’t care about his child? Especially when the child makes the first steps towards independence and adulthood, and the media only fuels the degree of excitement of adults reporting universally resonant accidents involving children. Some of them bring in the most that neither is a righteous terror, and fears to leave her baby without a permanent care are growing exponentially.
But do not panic! We’re not live in the stone age. Modern technology is not only aimed at comfort and relief of life, but also for safety.
In this case, the guardian of order and security of the child are children’s smart watch, which will help parents to regain control and peace of mind for their child. They look almost like a normal baby watch, but the content that is hidden beneath the variegated facade, will give relief to many concerned adults, and the kids will feel like the hero of a spy movie!
This thing has a lot of interesting and useful features for both adults and children. The watch may well replace the child’s phone – most of them you can make and receive calls, to write small messages and chat on social networks. It will be interesting and a built-in pedometer that will motivate the child to move more or even arrange a competition “who will make more steps per day” with friends or family members.
Parents also can literally always be next to your tot and be ready to help him to track the movement, to establish the permitted and prohibited locations, remotely listen what is happening around the baby and all this can be done directly from your device.
Today we talk about what functions can have a baby wearable gadgets, they can be useful and what to look for when buying.
The contents
- Design and display
- Indicators of the health of the child
- Protection from water
- Connection with a smartphone
- Autonomy
- The results
Design and display
The appearance of wearable electronics should match the age of the owner, so the majority of children’s smart watch has cheerful cheerful coloring.
Also, as “adults” watch some of the children’s model can support the change of the strapsthat the child can change the mood.
However, older children and teenagers may reject such a riot of colors (“What am I, little one?!”), and to prefer less flashy colors. Fortunately, manufacturers have provided such a course and offer variations of subdued colors – black, white, metallic.
Form factor almost all “smart” watches for children are the same – a square or rectangular body with rounded edges. The straps and body in such devices are made of high quality plastic, silicone, rubber or a combination of these materials. They are hypoallergenic, have a nice texture, durable and do not cause the child any discomfort.
By the way, most manufacturers consider the fact that their gadgets will be worn by children, so the straps in advance to make reliable and tear-resistant to even the most active fidget it was impossible to damage it. Although, of course, if you set such a goal, no technological tricks will not help.
Now let’s talk about the display and the control methods. Here all as at adults: a budget model for the most part have a small monochrome display and controlled mechanical side buttons, but watch abruptly can boast a colour touch screen.
Using the latter is more convenient to write messages in social networks, to share an Emoji, or play simple games, if they are present in the selected model. And there is hardly even one child that would prefer a little “colourless” screen full touch. However, the color screen will affect the final cost of the gadget, so it is better to determine a budget for the purchase.
Indicators of the health of the child
Kids wrist gadgets are not only “sledlike” and reassuring for parents. Modern models of smart watches for kids is often overgrown and some of the features of fitness trackers: they can be integrated with a pedometer, count calories burned and monitoring of sleep.
To track the activity and quality of sleep your child can be at a distance directly from your smartphone or tablet. This is especially true when baby is far away from home – for example, my grandmother outside of town or in camp. You can always be aware of how the child sleeps at night and how he’s moving throughout the day.
Protection from water
Children create creative and constantly studying the world. Drawing, modeling, playing in the sand, the activity on the street, at school or in the kindergarten gives the child frequent contact with water and soap.
To remove the gadget every time washing your hands, washing your face or brushing your teeth, manufacturers are protecting their device from splashes and spray. However, remember that if such a gadget without any problems can withstand flying at him, squirt water or play in the sandbox, it does not mean that it is completely protected from water. Forgetting to remove the watch in the shower or in the pool, they can “drown”.
However, there are also fully waterproof model, but they are represented in a visible minority, and their cost is usually higher spill-proof. On the other hand, the smart watch with a minimum level of protection from the water will help the child to become responsible and learn to respect the art and things in General.
Connection with a smartphone
The main feature of children’s smart watches is that they allow you to always keep abreast of the whereabouts of the child directly from the phone or tablet of the parents. To do this, the majority of children’s gadgets, need access not only to Wi-Fi (child, what is logical and can get out of range of the router), but also to the mobile Internet, so most on the market models necessarily have a slot for a SIM card.
Then trick and a five-minute connection settings of the smartphone with a clock. For this you need to insert a valid SIM card in the watch, install the app from the developers of children’s smart watch to your smartphone (from App Store or Google Play), to register, fill in the required fields, and voila! – both devices are paired.
Now you can easily track Your child through GPS tracking. Typically data is updated every 5-10 minutes (depending on the model chosen), but the frequency can be manually set up to update every 10 seconds. However, the battery of the frequent transfer of data will get faster.
However the functionality of the device is not limited. Thanks to the same support SIM card smart watch can receive and make calls, replacing the baby phone. Usually the memory is to be paid 2-3 rooms of family members, and some models also support up to 10 so-called “allowed” numbers.
Regardless of whether it is possible to call with hours or not, there are bound to be a “SOS” button, which will help your child to alert adults that he was in a difficult situation – a long press of a button on a smartphone parents sent a message with the current coordinates of the baby.
In addition, many models of smart watches available in the hidden function call. What does it mean? It means that one of the parents can make a spy call to watch the baby that is on the device in any way will not be reflected, but the parents can hear what is happening near your offspring. This is useful if you need to know, for example, than the child is home with a babysitter or what he’s doing in kindergarten. For older children it is no less important: not whether there are any conflicts among peers in school (which for some reason a child may not mention) or if the child is under bad influence questionable companies.
But that’s not all. Using the settings on your smartphone can be just to set “boundaries”, that is just to differentiate on the map of permitted and prohibited zones.
One of us was a child and did not violate parental prohibitions? With a GPS watch, modern children are less likely to disobedience. For example, if the child, for security purposes, do not attempt to go to the nearest pond (in abandoned building, forest plantations, on the construction site nearby – underline). If logic and argument senior have no result, and the child stubbornly continues to take not always safe decisions when crossing the “electronic fence” to the parent’s smartphone will immediately receive a notification.
And another nice bonus is the sensor of the lifting device. Smart watch will signal that the gadget was removed by the kid or just lost. In the latter case, to find it will not be easy – thanks, GPS!
Autonomy
While working children’s smart watch depends on the intensity of their use. At a constant GPS tracking device on average can work from 6 hours to 2 days, but in standby mode, the ratio increases to one week.
If You plan to constantly monitor the location of Your child, it is better to choose a smart watch with a higher battery capacity – 400-600 mAh. This ensures that the gadget will not have to charge during the day, the more that child is to be sure uncomfortable.
The results
Children’s smart watch, due to its broad capabilities, not like a simple child’s toy. They are able to relieve the parents from worrying about their baby, and the child, in turn, give confidence and a sense of security – even if family is not nearby, they can always come to the rescue in any situation. These gadgets will help the child to adapt to adult life, becoming more independent and more responsible.
It is important to determine which features are relevant for You and Your child. Nonetheless it is advisable to a smart watch had the ability to make and receive calls – in this case, the phone to the child is not required. Wi-Fi also will not be superfluous – it will allow you to save on mobile traffic, when the child is located, for example, at home.
Other functions you can select at your own discretion, but the shape, body colour and size of the display to better align themselves with the future owner. Fortunately, the variety of models allows you to choose from the many options that will not leave any child indifferent to the choice of their new gadget.
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