Adaptive Sleep Surface Temperature Control for Optimal Sleep Quality
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Summary
Problems
Current sleep environments lack effective temperature control mechanisms that adapt to the user's sleep stages and cycles, leading to suboptimal sleep quality.
Innovation solutions
A bed system with an adjustable temperature sleep surface and a controller that uses biometric sensors and pressure sensors to monitor sleep stages and cycles, adjusting the temperature to optimize sleep conditions by setting different temperatures based on the user's sleep stages and cycles, such as cooling during non-REM sleep and warming before awakening.
TRIZ Analysis
Specific contradictions:
General conflict description:
Principle concept:
If temperature control mechanisms are added to adapt to sleep stages, then sleep quality is improved, but device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The sleep surface is divided into multiple independently controllable temperature zones that can be adjusted according to different sleep stages and user preferences, allowing targeted temperature management without controlling the entire surface uniformly
Principle concept:
If temperature control mechanisms are added to adapt to sleep stages, then sleep quality is improved, but device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The system pre-conditions the sleep surface temperature before the user enters, and proactively adjusts temperature based on predicted sleep stages and cycles, rather than reactively responding to temperature changes
Application Domain
Data Source
AI summary:
A bed system with an adjustable temperature sleep surface and a controller that uses biometric sensors and pressure sensors to monitor sleep stages and cycles, adjusting the temperature to optimize sleep conditions by setting different temperatures based on the user's sleep stages and cycles, such as cooling during non-REM sleep and warming before awakening.
Abstract
A bed includes components to control temperature of a sleep surface, for example based on time and historical usage patterns by a user. In some embodiments the temperature of the sleep surface is controlled based on information indicating a sleep state of the user. In some embodiments the temperature is dynamically adjusted so to achieve particular sleep states and/or sleep patterns for the user. In some embodiments the temperature and timing of temperature adjustments is iteratively adjusted over multiple sleep sessions so to achieve improvements in sleep states and/or sleep quality for the user.