At OktoberTech Silicon Valley, Infineon Technologies has announced the launch of a contactless, privacy-centric sleep quality service that can be integrated into original equipment manufacturer (OEM) end devices such as bedside lamps, televisions, smart speakers and air purifiers. Using Infineon’s 60GHz Radar, programmable system on a chip (PSoC) and Wi-Fi technologies, the XENSIV Sleep Quality Service is designed to measure and help optimise the user’s sleep based on individual needs.
OEMs can now bring their sleep quality enabled end devices to market in up to one-third of the time and focus on functionality that uses their ecosystem to improve users’ quality of life. Science shows that lack of healthy sleep can result in significant health risks such as depression and heart disease or accidents caused by drowsy driving. Improving sleep quality and monitoring sleep performance is one of the best ways of enhancing health, decreasing the risk of drowsy driving and boosting learning abilities.
“Our vision of digitalisation is to provide technology on a system level in order to improve people’s lives,” said Jan-Hendrik Sewing, a senior vice president of radio frequency and sensors at Infineon. “We offer our new XENSIV Sleep Quality Service as a cost-effective solution that helps OEMs rapidly build new products and focus on increasing the quality of their customers’ sleep.”
Infineon’s XENSIV Sleep Quality Service automatically recognises and adapts to a person’s natural sleep rhythm to help improve their sleep quality and provide the information necessary for intelligent management of, for example, adaptive lighting, heating, cooling, and air quality.
Key features include:
1) sleep measurement distinguishing between asleep and awake, total sleep time, sleep efficiency, time to fall asleep, number of wake events
2) detection of sleep stages like rapid eye movement (REM) or non-REM
3) respiratory factors including anomalous changes in breathing intensity.
As part of Infineon’s broader Sensing as a Service (SEaaS) approach to accelerate OEMs’ time to market, the XENSIV Sleep Quality Service provides a fully managed, end-to-end solution. The comprehensive package consists of sensing, computing and connecting hardware, associated firmware and a cloud-based service to process and analyse data from millions of global users, facilitating data-driven decisions.
OEMs can implement the XENSIV Sleep Quality Service by integrating required hardware components into their end device and integrating the XENSIV Sleep Quality Service cloud offering into their web infrastructure and mobile application. The end product is then directly shipped to the consumers. OEMs maintain complete control over the customer relationship and data, ensuring full ownership and privacy management.
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