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Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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falconed wrote: post #109

Will body temperature be available as a metric graphed over time?

Body temperature is really hard to tell in an accurate way, even if we have some temperature sensor very close to your body: the sensor would be influenced a lot by the type of mattress.

The interesting one for circadian cycles is the "Core Temperature" but it's rather uncomfortable to measure (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_temperature#Core_tem...), what we can do instead is measuring your heart rate at rest that is something typically constant for a healthy person: if that varies from the usual value more than about 5bpm it usually means you have been exercising A LOT or that you are sick.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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diegolo wrote: post #72

In this way, they'll be able to know how many times you have sex per week ;)

That is something you can see by looking at raw data, before having them aggregated in sleep stages.

Raw data never get uploaded to the server but a 3rd party app using the device API can get access to them asking permissions to the user.

(you thought you were the only one to have that idea right? :))

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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ruben94 wrote: post #104

Find it hard to believe a mattress can track sleep quality accurately, and in order to aggregate information about your day gathered from other sources and do something useful with it they would need a very complex ML backend, which I doub a mattress company has.

That's why we are NOT a mattress company.

Look at my background, I happen to have been working in big data for the past 10 years. My last job was to run the data platform team of Upsight (former kontagent) the largest analytics and marketing platform for mobile.

Talking about the rest of the team: their background is much better than mine.

We are also being helped by our scientific board:

- Jessa Gamble https://www.ted.com/speakers/jessa_gamble

- Clete Kushida https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/clete-kushida

- David Rapoport http://www.med.nyu.edu/biosketch/rapopd01/

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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agotterer wrote: post #124
maghis wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use ballistocardiography (aka a big less sensitive microphone) to pick up movements, breathing and heart rate through the bed sheets.

Are the sound waves sent to the cloud for processing?

Nope, it's all filtered and processed locally.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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suyash wrote: post #113

Anyone cares to explain how the 'alarm' works? The website doesn't say much.

The alarm is part of the mobile app and it works in a similar way to the stock alarm clock app only informed by your current sleep phase.

Here's the difference.

Say you set your alarm for 7 am. The app starts looking at the sleep phase you are in from 6:30 am (this is configurable), if you enter a light sleep phase (N1) at 6:45, the alarm goes off and wake up without feeling groggy. If you don't enter a light sleep phase, the alarm goes off regardless at 7 am so you don't miss meetings and such.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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mintplant wrote: post #83

Since I can't find it anywhere on the site or the IndieGogo page [1]: how much of this works now, and how much is just an idea? Is there a video of the "pre-manufacturing prototype" in action? Pictures? Anything? [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/luna-turn-your-bed-into-a...

There are a few videos around showing demos we gave with pre-production prototypes (http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/27/luna-smart-mattress-cover/) unfortunately, given the type of product, it's a little hard to show on video but if you are based in SF you could swing by our office for a private demo (bring your pajamas:)).

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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thebacon wrote: post #82

Just happened to be reading HackerNews at the right time and got myself a Queen at the Early Bird price! I see you've already answered that the mattress cover itself cannot vibrate, and that the alarm will actually be through the app. Rather than increasing the volume of the alarm gradually, I'd much prefer being woken up like geoelectric by my phone vibrating or perhaps triggering another wifi enabled alarm that vib…

Yes, there a checkbox that enables the vibration when the alarm goes off. I am not aware of a wi-fi enabled vibration alarm, that would be an awesome product.

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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yCloser wrote: post #133

I'll tell you what: this device is great, really BUT: a microphone where I and my wife sleep and have sex? you either put an HARDWARE switch to turn it off (or even better, permit me to unplug the cable) or not gonna happen in my house

Audio is never recorded by Luna.

We have a microphone in the main enclosure but we don't have an audio codec which means we cannot record the audio. The only thing we can tell is whether there's been a loud noise or some sustained vibration at a specific frequency (snoring).

With the bed sensors we definitely pick up the movements of an intercourse but that is something you can only see by looking at raw data. Before sending them to the cloud, all the information about your movements get aggregated in sleep phases, this means that "sex" becomes "you are awake in bed".

A 3rd party app connected via wi-fi to the device can ask the user permission to access raw data from the device (much like facebook apps can ask for different permissions).

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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Post by maghis »

comboy wrote: post #93
maghis wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice that you mention because we inspired both our API and architecture to Philips Hue: the REST api is served by both our cloud servers and by the device locally. The app connects to the unit via wi-fi when you are home, which means you can control the product even if the internet (or our service) is down. Opensourcing a lot of our stack is part of the plan, we take a lot from OSS and we want to give back. As f…

How much of this do you have working already? I've been using Zeo and miss them a lot, tracking sleep phases or heartrate through this seems very ambitious. Also, some physical switch for microphone could be nice..

We never record the audio from the mic, we are only capable of detecting loud sounds or a sustained vibration (snoring).

Re: Luna – Hack your sleep

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sschueller wrote: post #132
maghis wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm the CTO of the company. The product will have an open (and well documented) REST API from the day we ship. Our app and website will use the same exact API that 3rd party developers will use. Apps will have to levels of data access permission: sleep patterns only and raw data (they will have to ask access to the user). We are taking a lot from OSS and we want to give back and contribute to the community, we w…

Any plans to make a none wifi version (or a way to turn that off and connect via RJ45)? Where is the wifi antenna in relation to the head? I try to avoid sleeping to close to my phone as well as other wifi/bluetooth enabled devices as it does appear to have an affect on my sleep quality.

No plans to make it non wi-fi. The antenna is inside the main enclosure, together with ambient sensors and power supply, outside of the bed.
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