Can a Security Camera Detect a Baby Not Moving?

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · May 20, 2026 · 34m

A listener asks two questions hiding in one: can a security camera detect a baby about to fall off the bed, and can it detect when the baby stops moving entirely? We walk through the engineering reality behind each use case—from zone-based bounding box checks to pose estimation on infant bodies, and why the "non-motion" problem is fundamentally harder than it sounds. Along the way, we grapple with a deeper question: just because you can build it, should you? With data showing that smart alerts increase parental anxiety, this episode is as much about risk assessment as it is about computer…