Health is one of the fundamental pillars of Apple's strategy. A large number of products already include development kits and specific functions to improve people's lives. The most significant is the Apple Watch. However, the big apple might be thinking of going further and launching your own mattress and pillow. These would be equipped with technology that provides all kinds of information. In this way, Apple could monitor sleep completely and in great detail: movements, heart rate, sleep phases, etc. Will we soon see these products designed by those of Cupertino?
Apple's patent: pillow and mattress to monitor sleep?
It is a monitoring system capable of measuring a variable number of vital signs. The monitoring system may include a number of sensors including, but not limited to, electrodes, piezoelectric sensors, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. The monitoring system may be capable of operating in one or more modes of operation. For example: capacitance measurement mode, electrical measurement, piezoelectric measurement, temperature measurement, acceleration, impedance and standby mode.
This patent published by Apple just a few months ago under the title "Vital signs monitoring system" it was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office just a few days ago. In the patent we can see a monitoring system that could be assumed to be in a pillow or mattress and that it would analyze various parameters. In addition, the technology would allow the detection of more than one person in the case of a mattress, so it would be really interesting and functional even in pairs.
The existence of this monitoring system it would be an addition to the Apple Watch. It should be remembered that Tim Cook said a few months ago that one of the problems with his watch is that a large part of the population uses the night to charge the device. Therefore, sleep monitoring could not be possible if the device is not in the user's hand. Nevertheless, with this system they could monitor sleep and other parameters such as the movements, the temperature of the room and the user or even the heart rate.
En función de los valores medidos, el sistema de monitoreo puede analizar el sueño del usuario, proporcionar comentarios y sugerencias al usuario, y/o ajustar y controlar las condiciones ambientales para mejorar el sueño del usuario.
The system itself would not only allow capture of sleep information by the user rather it would adapt the situation to the current state of the user. So that makes us think that this patent would have to adhere to actual products that Apple could market. like pillows or mattresses. In this way, the detection of the different parameters could be modified by the product itself. At the expense, of course, of the analysis produced by the device in question.