Imagine if your gadgets were talking about coffee in the kitchen. After the jokes and “pass the pastries”, what would they discuss? GOOD, You, Of course. “Did Jeremy slept well last night?” My air purifier could ask my intelligent watch, comparing notes on breathing, air circulation and anything else. “Can we keep it happier and healthier?” They wonder. “He is obviously overwhelmed … Can we help him face this?”
This bizarre vision of the future was presented at the Big CES press conference in Samsung in Las Vegas in January, and frankly, it seemed a little clumsy. The dishwasher does not have Googly eyes and a personality, after all. Like the animatronic robots of Disney World, he described a future that is both wonderfully impossible and as far as a dream. But here is the thing: this is not the case.
On Wednesday April 9, Samsung unveiled a major update of the SmartThings application (version 3.28.25 – What happened to the COOL code names?). It includes an extended support for material 1.4 and energy management devices, a new intercom feature and expanded routine functions. And, for the first time, everything fits directly into the Samsung Health application to help your gadgets make personalized decisions to improve your health and well-being.
The amount of data we generate in the company today goes far beyond the amount we may use
Jonathan Gabrio
“The amount of data we generate in the company today goes far beyond the amount we can use,” said Jonathan Gabrio, chief of Connected Experience Center in Samsung a few weeks ago. “How do we use AI and different types of connectors technologies to make it useful to the average human being?” And sleep is one of these enormous opportunities. ”
Gabrio directs the Connected Experience Center, where he examines how AI and IoT technologies come together. Your Robovac and Smart Ring may not have clumsy personalities, but they collect huge amounts of data.
One of the biggest challenges that the world of technology is confronted is to transform all this information into something significant and achievable, a fact that I saw in the first hand: after half a decade, I recently removed my Oura. Daily recording in my sleep cycles revealed anything that I could not use. Samsung thinks that the power of smartthings can facilitate learning our sleep habits – and learning, improve them.
“How don’t we only do best things but Better things“Said Gabrio.” This is the interesting part of the conversation in which we are now as a company. “
A new routine at bedtime
SmartThings today allows you to create routines, a way to link your devices: you can set the mood for dinner by greying lighting and putting mood music, for example. A sleep routine could adjust lighting, temperature, humidity and other environmental factors to optimize for this deep sleep that you cannot seem to obtain.
With the new update, these routines can be triggered automatically when your body really composes for the evening or wakes up in the morning, rather than a fixed schedule.
A good night’s sleep depends more than closing your eyes and counting sheep: there are biological factors like the last time you have eaten and the amount of wine you have consumed before going to bed, for example, as well as environmental factors. Thanks to intelligent devices, a huge flow of data on your environment is possible that simply did not exist before. Think of lumens, CO2 levels, humidity and temperature, etc.
Samsung smartthes can optimize according to data from all Of these things, not just the biometric data of your Galaxy watch. It can detect if you sleep better when the temperature is between 61 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit / 16-18 degrees Celsius and adjust your heat pump to actively keep this beach. The same routine can detect when you wake up and automatically heat the room, tell the lights and light your news in the morning.
Here is the best part: follow this information for a few days – you can see it in a new report on the sleep environment – and a brand new routine creation assistant (finally!) Will use a generative AI to create a routine for you. You will not have to use the data to understand what allows you to snore, in other words. And if you have a more recent Samsung TV, which can act as a smartthing center, it will suggest you turn on basketball and prepare for the bed.
Sleep Science 2.0
Does that seem a little crazy? It is more popular than you think. Sleep monitoring has increased by 17% since 2020 among young users in the Samsung watches and rings range, Gabrio told me. According to Samsung, 30% of these people use functionality, which means that sleep monitoring is not only a problem for harassed parents and overworked employees. It is a great concern for everyone. But strangely, our modern sleeping obsession has not really changed the fundamentals.
“Interestingly, our understanding of healthy sleep has not really changed even with all these new data”, ” Vanessa HillAn Australian sleeping researcher, told Techradar. “The recommendation remains 7 to 9 hours for adults, varying according to age … What has evolved is our understanding of sleep health as a multidimensional (going beyond duration).
Our understanding of healthy sleep has not really changed with all these new data
Vanessa Hill, sleep scientist
“Recent research suggests that the regularity of sleep, maintaining a time of coherent awakening time, can be more predictive of long -term health than the duration of sleep alone.”
Hill does not recommend overcoming your daily statistics, as I had done for years with my Oura ring. For some, continuous data may increase stress or lead to orthosomnia (Sleep disturbances focused on the anxiety of darkness on the measurements), she notes. It was me in a word, but thanks to AI, and its broader ability to analyze several points of longitudinally data, we can gradually improve behavior.
“AI can transform health data (which is often complex) into personalized ideas that help to understand it more easily,” she says. Applying these ideas and keeping a new routine can be difficult, because anyone who has tried a diet will tell you. The application of Samsung intelligently sorts people in categories with cute animal avatars – I am a penguin, apparently. Automated routines should facilitate respect for our convictions. And all of this could help you get away from it more easily and stay asleep longer. Dreamland is waiting for you!
