Sleeping environment control systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Creating a personalized sleep environment that adjusts temperature, humidity, airflow, light, and sound independently for individual users without disrupting their rest is challenging due to varying preferences and schedules, affecting restful sleep and productivity.
Innovation Solution
A sleep environment control system comprising a base, distribution head, and conduit that delivers localized adjustments of airflow, water vapor, light, and sound, allowing users to customize their environment settings without disturbing others, using modules like airflow, vapor, control, and user interface modules to generate and distribute these adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If environment adjustments are delivered to multiple users in a shared sleep space, then one user's preferences can be satisfied, but another user may be disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The sleep space is divided into multiple localized zones, each with independent environmental control. Sensors and actuators are distributed throughout the space, allowing each user to have their own controlled micro-environment without affecting others. This segmentation enables simultaneous personalization for multiple users while preventing cross-user disruption.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the sleep space are provided with different environmental characteristics tailored to individual user preferences. Each user's zone has customized temperature, humidity, airflow, light, and sound settings. This local quality approach allows diverse environmental conditions to coexist in the same overall space, satisfying individual needs without imposing on others.
2Ease of operation
If environment control devices are placed in the sleep space, then environmental adjustments can be delivered, but the devices may obstruct or disrupt the user
Solution Approach 1:
The control system is extracted from traditional centralized locations and distributed throughout the sleep space via thin, flexible conduits. Sensors and actuators are embedded in the mattress or positioned at edges, removing bulk equipment from the user's immediate space. This extraction maintains environmental control capability while eliminating physical obstruction and disruption to the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes flexible, thin-walled conduits and tubing to deliver environmental adjustments throughout the sleep space. These thin-film structures are unobtrusive and do not interfere with user comfort or movement. The flexible nature of these components allows them to conform to the sleep space geometry without creating rigid obstructions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple environment adjustments are delivered simultaneously, then comprehensive personalization is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single distributed control system architecture handles multiple environmental parameters (temperature, humidity, airflow, light, sound) through unified control logic and infrastructure. The same network of sensors and actuators manages different parameters, and the control algorithm coordinates all adjustments simultaneously. This multi-functionality approach achieves comprehensive personalization without proportionally increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple environmental control functions are merged into an integrated system that operates through coordinated interaction of its components. The control algorithm combines temperature, humidity, airflow, light, and sound adjustments into a unified environmental profile for each user. This merging allows comprehensive personalization while reducing overall system complexity through integration rather than separate independent systems.
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AI summary
Sleep environment control systems adjust sleep environments independently for individual users. A sleep environment control system delivers multiple environment adjustments via one opening to a user supported by a mattress. The environment adjustments include airflow, water vapor, light, and sound. The sleep environment control system can be placed in adjacent to the mattress thereby to deliver the environment adjustments to the user. The environment adjustments are delivered to the user in a localized fashion such that they do not disrupt other users. The sleep environment control system further generates the one or more environment adjustments.