The sync module reminds me of the Nabaztag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag ) and I wondered whether Mother was going to have signals and indicators so that you didn't have to use a mobile device for insight.
That's the first thing I thought about and when I saw above that Sense was a French company, I thought it might actually be related. Well, it is: https://sen.se/about/who/