Withings, a France-based maker of smart products ranging from baby monitors to activity trackers, has unveiled the Aura smart sleep system that aims to improve the user’s quality of sleep. The Aura tracks the noise, room temperature, and amount of ambient light during sleep and creates a program of alternating lights and sounds that supposedly aid the user’s sleep experience. The smart sleep system also includes a sensor that is placed under the mattress to track the user’s movements, heart rate, and breathing pattern.
The device syncs with the iOS based HealthMate app that enables the user to not only view his or her sleep behavior, heart rate, and breathing patterns at night, but to also manage the personalized sleep programs created by the Aura system. Users can also use the app to see what wakes them up at night. The sound and light programs created by the system adapt to each person’s circadian rhythm, helping to bring on relaxation when he or she is going to bed and conversely help to stimulate the person while waking up. Withings is reported to have made use of the correlation between lighting wavelengths and secretion of melatonin, the sleep hormone, in designing the multi-color LED dimming light technology in the Aura system.
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