Imagine if your devices talked to each other about coffee in the kitchen. After jokes and “pass the cakes”, what would they discuss? Good, you, of course. “Jeremy slept well last night?” My air purifier could ask my smart watch, comparing breathing notes, air circulation and anything else. “Can we keep it happier and healthier?” They wonder. “He is obviously too stressed … Can we help you deal with that?”
That strange vision of the future was presented during Samsung’s Press Conference in Las Vegas in January, and frankly, he felt a bit silly. The dishwasher has no jumping eyes and a personality, after all. Like animatronic robots in Disney World, he described a wonderfully impossible future as a dream. But here is the thing: it is not.
On Wednesday, April 9, Samsung presented a great update of the Smartthings application (version 3.28.25, what happened to the great code names?). It includes expanded support for the 1.4 matter and energy management devices, a new intercom functionality and expanded routine functions. And, for the first time, everything is integrated directly with the Samsung Health application to help their devices make personalized decisions to improve their health and well -being.
The amount of data we generate in society today greatly exceeds the amount we can use
Jonathan Gabrio
“The amount of data we are generating in society today greatly exceeds the amount we can use,” Jonathan Gabrio, head of the Connected Experience Center in Samsung, told me a few weeks ago. “How do we use AI and different types of connective technologies to make it useful for the average human being and sleep is one of those enormous opportunities.”
Gabrio leads the Connected experience center, where he examines how AI and IoT technologies are joined. It is possible that their robovac and their smart ring do not have silly personalities, but they collect huge amounts of data.
One of the biggest challenges faced by the world of technology is to turn all that information into something significant and processable, a fact that I have seen first hand: after half a decade, I recently removed my Oura ring. The daily check in my sleep cycles revealed exactly nothing I felt I could use. Samsung believes that Smartthings’ power can facilitate learning on our sleep patterns, and learning them.
“How not just do we do better things But do better things“Gabrio said.” That is the interesting part of the conversation in which we are as a society now. “
A new bedtime routine
Smartthings today allows you to create routines, a way of joining your devices: you can establish the mood for dinner attenuating lighting and putting humor music, for example. A sleep routine can adjust lighting, temperature, humidity and other environmental factors to optimize that deep sleep that seems to be obtained anymore.
With the new update, these routines can be automatically activated when your body really reduces for the night or wakes up in the morning, instead of a fixed schedule.
A good sleep night depends on something more than closing your eyes and counting sheep: there are biological factors such as the last time he ate and how much wine consumed before bedtime, for example, as well as environmental factors. Thanks to intelligent devices, a great data flow is possible on their environment that simply did not exist before. Think of lumens, CO2 levels, humidity and temperature, etc.
Samsung Smartthings can optimize according to data from all Of those things, not only the biometric data of your Galaxy clock. You can detect if you sleep better when the temperature is between 61-65 degrees Fahrenheit / 16-18 Celsius degrees and adjust your heat pump to actively maintain that range. The same routine can detect when the room is awake and heats and heats automatically, light the lights and turn on their morning news.
This is the best part: tracking that information for a few days: you can see it in a new sleep environment report, and a new routine creation assistant (finally!) Will use a generative AI to build a routine for you. You will not have to extract the data to discover what keeps you snoring, in other words. And if you have a newer Samsung TV, which can act as a smartthings center, you will suggest that you turn off basketball and prepare for the bed.
Sleep Science 2.0
Sounds a little crazy? It is more popular than you think. Sleep tracking has increased by 17% since 2020 among younger users in the portable watches and rings of Samsung, Gabrio tells me. 30% of these people use the function, according to Samsung, which means that sleep monitoring is not just a problem for harassed parents and employees with excess of work. It is a great concern for everyone. But strangely, our modern obsession with sleep has not really changed the foundations.
“Interestingly, our understanding of healthy dream has not really changed even with all these new data.” Vanessa HillAn Australian sleep researcher tells Techradar. “The recommendation remains 7 to 9 hours for adults, which varies according to age … What has evolved is our understanding of sleep health as multidimensional (going beyond duration).
Our understanding of healthy dream has not really changed even with all these new data.
Vanessa Hill, Sleep Scientist
“Recent research suggests that the regularity of sleep, maintaining an hour to go to bed and a time of vigil, may be more predictive of long -term health than the duration of sleep only.”
Hill does not recommend looking for his statistics daily, as I had done for years with my Oura ring. For some, continuous data can increase stress or lead to orthosomnia (Dream disturbances driven by anxiety to obsess the metrics), he points out. That was me in a nutshell, but thanks to AI, and its broader capacity to analyze multiple data points longitudinally, we can gradually improve behaviors.
“AI can convert health data (which are often complex) into personalized ideas that help make it easier to understand,” she says. Applying those ideas and maintaining a new routine can be difficult, like anyone who has tried to diet will tell you. The Samsung application skillfully classifies people into categories with beautiful animal avatars: I am a penguin, apparently. Automated routines should make it easier to meet our convictions. And everything could help you move more easily and stay asleep for longer. Dreamland wait!
