Select Comfort's latest bed promises to adjust to your sleep patterns throughout the night, including warming the foot of your bed before you get in, changing position when it senses snoring and waking you gently in the morning.
Select Comfort Corp. is capitalizing on the emergence of sleep science as an area of health research and the rise of mobile technology in developing its Sleep Number 360 smart bed.
Shelly Ibach, Select Comfort's chief executive, called it "a revolutionary product that redefines what people should expect from their bed."
Plymouth-based Select Comfort specializes in air-filled mattresses that are adjustable to what it calls a person's "sleep number." In a sign of the importance of technology to the new product, the company unveiled the bed at CES, the electronics and consumer technology trade show that started Tuesday in Las Vegas. It won a "Best of Innovation" honor in home appliances at the event.
Separately at CES, Bloomington-based Resound won a "Best of Innovation" award in accessible tech for its ENZO2 hearing aid. The trade show gives out 28 such awards.
Select Comfort's new bed uses sensors to measure key biometric variables including breath rate, heart rate and body position. The technology, introduced in 2014, takes the data to produce what the company calls a "SleepIQ score," indicating quality of sleep on a 1-to-100 scale.
The new bed uses that information to automatically adjust the comfort of the bed throughout the night. The new technology can also establish a pre-sleep routine by gently warming the foot of the bed before bedtime — research shows people with warm feet fall asleep faster — and suggest the optimal wake-up time based on sleep cycles.
Some Sleep Number 360 bed models can raise the head portion of the bed 7 degrees to offset snoring.
