What are the disadvantages of Baby Monitors? First and foremost, baby monitors work more efficiently between ground floor and first floor areas. However, if your home is made of thick concrete walls or has aluminum siding, then this can terribly decrease the strength of the transmitted signal. Parents who own baby monitors have also reported instances of interference. Wireless baby monitors are usually the gadgets that experience this kind of problem. They experience interferences because of different factors one of which is the use of other wireless devices either in your flat or in the flat of other tenants. Luckily, there are several ways on how to, if not eliminate, at least minimize the existence of interference. Doing two things at the same time, watching over your baby and doing your other household chores, seem quite impossible. So what do you do? You can use baby video monitors. What are baby video monitors? Baby video monitors are the advance version of the simplex transmitter and receiver system of baby monitors. These two-way baby monitors not only provide parents with a means to check on their baby, but a means for parent-child bonding as well. What is the difference between the two-way monitor and one-way monitor? One-way monitors from the name itself, basically only transmit sound through a single channel wherein parents can hear the sounds that their baby makes from the other end. This will serve as a backup in case the apnea monitor fails to detect apnea because it will also manifest in the heart rate of the baby. Another must have feature is a remote alarm. Even if you are not in the same room with the baby, a remote monitor will notify you if anything goes wrong. It must also have a power loss alarm. Portability Every now and then, people may share a similar opinion when it comes to size. Some consider smaller devices to be more excellent than larger ones. Because of this trend, as well as the necessity for better portability, a good number of modern baby monitors are currently equipped with ultra-small receivers.