Smart home uses are convenience-focused, and discovering the limits of what a home monitoring system can do. But in an age where technology is beginning to do it all, where is the focus on the people? The company Sleepal wants to address just that, focusing on wellness by focusing on how people sleep in combination with their environment.

Sleepal is a consumer brand operated by XSmart Technology, a company founded in 2022 by Dian Fan, a Tsinghua University master’s degree graduate. Fan is also a founding employee, General Manager of the IoT Platform Department, and Head of Cloud Services at Xiaomi.

New technology is the fusion of artificial intelligence and sensor technology, expanding sleep-monitoring capabilities and potentially how users sleep. The Sleepal AI Lamp is at the convergence of emerging tech, and, with its creation, the Sleepal company aims to deliver a product that not only tracks how you sleep but also factors in your environment. With a non-contact, ambient design, they hope to usher in a new era of health-focused smart home integration.

The rise of ambient, non-invasive sleep tech

With traditional wearables, consumers can experience discomfort from the design or the wearable requirements of the device. A limited battery life causes repetitive need to recharge and can cause worry about how long the battery will last while in use. These types of devices can also see a lower adoption among sensitive or elderly users.

Devices like the Sleepal® AI Lamp remove the need for skin contact or wearable tech, offering full functionality in a passive, contactless format. Discomfort, charging, and sensitivity can become obsolete, improving the functionality for users.

Multi-modal sensing using radar, thermal, acoustic, humidity, luminosity, and environmental cues enables holistic, high-accuracy sleep tracking.

Beyond sleep tracking: Personalized and AI-driven

To build the Sleepal lamp, the company combined AI models trained on proprietary clinical sleep datasets over a period of two years with real-time sensor inputs to generate accurate, personalized sleep reports and actionable suggestions for improved sleep quality.

The Sleepal AI lamp includes sleep position guidance, breathing pattern analysis, and adaptive environmental control (light/sound), making it a soothing and holistic sleep system.

Smart homes meet preventive health

By integrating the Sleepal AI Lamp into smart homes, Sleepal hopes to turn bedrooms into intelligent wellness zones. The idea is driven by the company’s commitment to enable users to understand how they can get better sleep. Their AI lamp is built so that wellness is not competing for attention with all the other high-activity electronics people keep in their homes in contemporary times.

Adaptive light, sound, and device behavior are based on the customer’s sleep stages, hoping to promote better rest and daily circadian rhythm alignment. Sleepal positions their smart sleep tech as a key component of consumer-driven preventive health.

Design and privacy

The Sleepal sleep system is designed to blend into home decor while maintaining privacy-first operation. The lamp has no camera and takes no video, only heat patterns and radar. Sensor data is processed locally on the device, but some sleep features are measured against AI for deep sleep insight and actionable suggestions for improved sleep quality. Included in the design of the device is a physical privacy button that disconnects sensors at the circuit level, promising 100% privacy.

The visual design of Sleepal AI Lamp came from collaboration with VISTART Design, the premium design studio founded by renowned, award-winning designer Ningning Li. It focuses on lifestyle appeal and an unobtrusive form factor.

Digital health market trends and applications

The aging population and the increasing awareness of sleep’s impact on mental and physical health create a demand for accessible, at-home health solutions. Sleepal is hoping to fill the gap with their AI lamp sleep system. 

The company says its product is ideal for use in elderly care, monitoring older patients who may require more care at night, as well as sleep apnea and other symptoms for troubled sleepers. Finally, the device is made for stress management with white noise or soothing soundscapes, a low-blue light interface that naturally induces a calmer state of mind, and other exciting features on the roadmap designed to promote a stress-free and optimized sleep.

In the future, Sleepal hopes to be a pioneer in integrating sleep health into smart homes.

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