Why babybeep®

The story is always the same: you think the baby was dropped at school or the babysitter. A work phone call, stress combined with fast pace routines unexpectedly change your plans, you park your car under the sun that becomes a hostile environment for the baby, that unfortunately is still in the car.

babybeep®, thanks to its technology able to work even if you don’t have your phone with you, will give you the peace of mind you need. Designed to be used on any car seat, lightweight and user friendly with high protocols of safety, protects parents that face everyday fatigue, tensions and work stress.

Because SAFETY is not a game.

«It’s never gonna happen to me»

A common thoughts from the parents of the 906 children who lost their lives in US since 1998 unintentionally left behind in their cars. https://www.noheatstroke.org/

How does that happen? How can an irreproachable parent, with a stable job and a united family, forget about taking their child to daycare?
Automatisms, this is the key word to explain the amnesia that could lead to tragic consequences if not to the denunciation for abandonment of minors. The daily routine makes us make the same gestures, we drive along the same paths and in these situations the state of consciousness lowers, we are less vigilant.

None of the parents defined as «blackout victims» had mental disorders at the time of the incident and they are not affected by pathologies.

A cognitive disorder like a brain blackout can really happen to anyone, regardless of age, gender, level of education, social status or health conditions. Often it is the combination of several factors combined to determine an forgetfulness that in the worst case can be fatal: sameness, fatigue, lack of sleep, small variations in the daily routine.

For this reason, the Italian government has enacted a law, operational since November 2019, which obliges the parents of children transported by car to have a certified anti abandonment system. That’s why babybeep® smart pad was born.

The US government introduced in the House the Hot Cars Act bill (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th- congress/house-bill/3164/text) which would require car manufacturers to have an alert system that would remind people not to leave their child in the backseat, as well as introducing “detect and alert” technologies to the public for existing cars.

Auto lasciata sotto il sole e pericoli per i bambini

Heatstroke: 60 minutes and the car reaches 117°F

A summer day, the car parked under the sun and the passenger compartment reaches 117 ° F in just 60 minutes. This temperature can easily be fatal, especially for a child, and even if the car is parked in the shade.

On average, 38 children a year lose their lives in the United States due to the hyperthermia, known as «heatstroke», which occurs when the body temperature exceeds 104° F without heat dissipating.

A study has highlighted how long the temperature can be reached that can cause hyperthermia on three types of cars: small, medium and minivan. The temperature was monitored during a summer day, with a maximum temperature of 98°F.

The fastest to warm up was the smallest car, but all three types reached 117°F, after just 60 minutes.

Some small traditional aids….

Lack of sleep, too many worries, an extremely busy job from a physical or mental point of view, are all factors that can generate an accumulation of stress and affect the memory, causing temporary gaps.

The best strategy to prevent these blackouts is to list the activities that you will face during the day. The classic to-do-list.

But often, unfortunately, the action of accompanying your child to a specific place, given the priority, is not part of a list of this type. Another trick that can help at least in part the parent is to place essential items near the car seat of the child, such as the laptop, personal documents, the backpack or the work bag. At the right time, it will be easier to avoid problems thanks to the proximity of such objects to the child seat.

However, if these traditional remedies can be weak, the babybeep® smart pad technology helps decisively.

Storybook ending

There are many who think that a problem of this kind can concern only others, never happen to us! You’re probably thinking the same thing when you’re reading, and you’re sure an accident like that will never happen to you. But why risk it when today’s technology allows us to live serene typical activities for a family?

There’s a happy ending to everything we’ve talked about so far: babybeep®

Thanks to the technology involved in the development of our anti-abandonment system, you can easily and immediately secure the passenger compartment of your car. With babybeep® you can make smart the car seat of your car, which will thus be able to dialogue with the instrument that more than any other is present in our daily life and always at hand: the smartphone.

But not only that, since in the development of babybeep® we thought of just everything. In today’s society, both parents often work and grandparents accompany children. babybeep® is also suitable for those who are not very familiar with the technology because its app is installed only once and is automatically activated every time you are in the car with your child in the car seat.