Apple’s new patent: Sleep and health monitoring through mattresses

[PChome Smart Hardware Channel Information Report] In recent years, Apple It has begun to make efforts in the field of sports and health, but the Apple Watch series it relies on usually does not monitor when the user sleeps at night. Recently, a patent published by Apple shows that the company is trying to track sleep.

Apple acquired Beddit, an iOS sleep-tracking platform, in May 2017, and the company’s previous solution was to capture information by placing a tracker under the user’s bed sheet. Apple’s latest patent shows that the company plans to use piezoelectric films on the surface of the bed to determine the point of contact between the person and the bed.

The patent, titled “Multi-element Piezoelectric Sensor for Bed Physiological Measurements,” offers two solutions. The first uses a strip of film similar to the Beddit sensor to be placed over the user’s heart, while the second covers nearly the entire surface area of ​​the bed. But so far, this technology is still in the patent stage.

Editor’s comment: Apple has tested the market prospect of the health field through wearable devices, and has received positive feedback. It is foreseeable that the health business will become one of Apple’s important directions in the next decade.