Amazon had just recently announced a couple of new smart home products for the global market. This included the new Echo Dot series of smart speakers, the new Kindle Scribe, and the latest Fire TV Cube as well. Alongside these new products, the company also announced the new Halo Rise, which has an interesting feature that can track your sleep by your breathing pattern. So let’s have a look.
The new Halo Rise is basically a bedside lamp that has a built in sleep tracker that can work without a camera or a microphone. Furthermore, it uses a “no contact, low energy sensor,” which can sense movements and respiratory patterns. In simpler terms, it can sense your breathe and, thanks to its machine learning prowess, it can detect the expansion and contraction of your body when you’re asleep.
Through this, Amazon claims that it has “trained and validated the device’s sleep algorithm against the clinical gold standard for sleep analysis called overnight polysomnography.” Additionally, even if there is another person or an animal sharing the bed with you, the Halo Rise can detect it and exclude their activity while only mapping your data in the sleep summary, which is offered to you everyday. These reports also offers suggestions to help improve your sleep by optimizing your environment.
The Halo Rise also has built in sensors to measure the temperature, humidity and brightness of your room, and is also a lamp that also supports Alexa. Notably, you can even turn off the sleep tracking feature if you’re more concerned about privacy. The device will go on sale later this year and has a price tag of 140 US Dollars.
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