Cloud-Connected Adjustable Mattress for Multi-User Comfort Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional mattresses fail to adapt to individual body needs in different sleeping postures and are unsuitable for travel, leading to suboptimal sleep quality, especially in hotels where mattresses are often too soft or hard, affecting health and work efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A personalized mattress system with a client, adjustable mattress device, and cloud-based data storage that collects user customization information to adjust mattress hardness and height, allowing for real-time adaptation to different users and environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional fixed mattress is used, then the structure is simple and cost-effective, but it cannot adapt to different users' body needs and sleeping postures
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress is divided into multiple independent adjustable regions (head, shoulder, waist, leg areas) with separate air chambers. Each region can be independently adjusted to provide customized support for different body parts, enabling the mattress to adapt to various users' body shapes and sleeping postures while maintaining a manageable structure
Solution Approach 2:
The mattress transitions from a fixed static structure to a dynamic adjustable system using inflatable air chambers controlled by electronic motors. The hardness and support of each region can be dynamically changed based on user preferences and detected body pressure, allowing the mattress to adapt to different users without requiring completely different mattress designs
2Adaptability or versatility
If an adjustable mattress with mechanical lifting or air bags is used, then comfort and health support are improved, but it is difficult to adapt when users change mattresses or travel to hotels
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress control system is designed with universal functionality that can serve multiple users and different scenarios. The cloud-based data storage and wireless communication enable the mattress to be universally applicable in both home and hotel settings, allowing users to maintain consistent comfort preferences across different locations without requiring separate control systems
Solution Approach 2:
User preference data and body pressure information are digitally copied and stored in the cloud. When a user travels to a hotel or changes mattresses, their personalized settings are retrieved from the cloud and applied to the new mattress, creating a digital copy of their home mattress experience. This eliminates the need for users to physically transport or reconfigure complex mechanical components
3Ease of operation
If hotel mattresses use fixed soft or hard configurations, then manufacturing and maintenance are simple, but they fail to provide high-quality sleep for different individuals
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress system automatically detects user body pressure distribution through embedded sensors and autonomously adjusts each region's inflation level to achieve optimal comfort. Users can initiate adjustment through simple wireless control, and the system self-regulates the air chamber pressures based on detected body weight and posture, eliminating the need for complex manual configuration while providing personalized comfort
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AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a personalized mattress system and a mattress customization method. The personalized mattress system includes a client, an adjustable mattress device, and a cloud, wherein the client includes a user login unit, a user personal customization unit, a mattress control unit, and a data communication unit; the adjustable mattress device includes a data communication unit, a main control unit, an algorithm unit, a sensing unit, an adjustment unit, and a local data storage unit; and the adjustable mattress device acquires user customization information from the client or the cloud through the data communication unit and perform mattress adjustment.