Sleep Number Announces Scientific Advisory Board Members - Seite 2

Sleep Science Fueling Timely Tech Innovations

The advisors are already contributing to Sleep Number innovations, including the newest health and wellness features in the company’s proprietary SleepIQ technology, the operating system of the Sleep Number 360 smart bed. The April 26 SleepIQ update introduced two new features informed by the expertise of the advisory board. These advancements support growing consumer interest in immunity-boosting activities and products that support wellness in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Developed by the Sleep Number’s sleep science and research team with the support of Dr. Van Cauter, Sleep Circadian Analytics helps sleepers automatically track their sleep and wake times in the SleepIQ platform application. Using artificial intelligence, SleepIQ technology learns a sleeper’s patterns and provides guidance to optimize sleep and wake times, such as what time of day they are most alert or their optimal time to go to bed.
  
  Not only will the Sleep Circadian Analytics insights help each sleeper maximize their sleep schedule to align with their ideal circadian rhythm, it may help fight off illness. One important benefit of Sleep Circadian Analytics relates to immunity, according to Dr. Van Cauter. “Human immune function is profoundly modulated by sleep and circadian rhythms,” Dr. Van Cauter said. “Studies strongly suggest that insufficient sleep, poor sleep quality or irregular day-to-day timing of sleep may adversely affect immunity.”

• Monthly Wellness Reports provide an overview of personalized insights, highlighting sleep health, circadian stability, and respiratory and cardiovascular health (coming in Q3 2020). The report helps sleepers understand what is happening with their sleep and see how their sleep health has changed over time. Internal research indicated that 8 out of 10 users found these Wellness Reports to be valuable, and 40 percent of the users changed sleep behaviors based upon information provided in the reports, such as going to bed earlier or changing their pre-bedtime routine. If sleepers choose, the SleepIQ Wellness Reports can be shared with their healthcare providers, giving physicians unique access to individualized data that could help provide a more holistic picture of patient health.

SleepIQ technology is one of the most comprehensive and accurate sleep databases in the world. Sleep Number’s innovative platform captures over 12 billion biometric data points nightly, conducting one of the largest longitudinal sleep studies in history while improving sleep physiology of sleepers across the United States. Additionally, SleepIQ technology uses the power of data and artificial intelligence to unlock individual and population sleep patterns and provides bio-signal benefits for consumers. With more than 700 million sleep sessions of data and research, the digital health platform is linking quality sleep to individualized wellness.