With Sense you will finally be able understand how everything affects the way you sleep. Everyone wants to get a full nights sleep, and with sense you will be able to see everything that happens while you sleep. Wake up and take a look at what happened during the night, what might have broken your sleep, noise, air quality, or anything inbetween. Sense also has a built in alarm system to wake you up in the morning. Take a look at their project and If you decide to back them, please leave a comment on their campaigns comment page that you found their project through IamABacker.com , Thank you.

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Sense is a simple system that tracks your sleep behavior, monitors the environment of your bedroom and reinvents the alarm.

Let's Talk About Sleep

We created Sense to be simple, uncomplicated and useful. Sense is the first system that combines the insight of your sleep patterns with the data of the environment in your bedroom, including noise, light, temperature, humidity and particles in the air.

With Sense's Smart Alarm, it can even wake you up in the morning at the right point in your sleep cycle, to avoid that groggy feeling we all hate so much. All easily available via our iPhone and Android applications.

Sense

Technology has enriched our lives in many ways. But it has its downside, and sleep is one of its biggest victims.

Sense uses technology so we can take back our sleep. Without imposing itself. Without intrusion.

Everything with Sense is designed to fade away and work in the background, letting you just sleep.

When you wake up, see your previous night's sleep and everything that happened.

Sense system includes:

Sense, a beautiful device that sits on your nightstand monitoring the conditions in your bedroom and disturbances at night
Sleep Pill, a small but incredibly sensitive sleep tracking sensor that clips invisibly to your pillow
Mobile applications that bring it all together

The app tells you how well you slept, or didn't, by giving you a unique Sleep Score each night.

You can begin to correlate interruptions in your sleep to external conditions and disturbances. You can play back key sound disturbances via the app to say “Ah, the garbage truck broke my sleep cycle at 3am. I didn’t even realize that.”

If Sense sees a problem with your environment, it lets you know.

Sense even contains a speaker, so it can play white noise, or similar sounds such as pink noise or calming rain, if that helps you sleep better. The speaker is also used to play Sense's Smart Alarm, which wakes you up at the right point in your sleep cycle.

Sleep Pill

Sense comes with a little device called Sleep Pill. It simply attaches to your pillow and invisibly tracks your sleep at night. You don't need to put on any uncomfortable wearables or remember to charge something or press a button. Sense knows when you're falling asleep, soundly asleep, thrashing about, or waking up. Everything.

Hidden inside such a tiny package is a 6-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, capable of picking up the tiniest of your movements throughout the night. This is all then sent wirelessly via Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT to Sense seamlessly in the background. No worrying about pairing or syncing. It just happens.

There is nothing to remember to charge or plug in; Sleep Pill lasts a whole year. And if it gets tossed in the washing machine, no worries. We've designed it to be completely water-proof and next to indestructible.

Have a partner? No problem! Just clip on a second Sleep Pill and Sense is able to detect each of your sleep pattern's separately, as well as see if your partners snoring or movement is disrupting your sleep.

Sleep Score

Sense's Sleep Score takes into account all of the sensor data and variables that it monitors to generate a score out of 100 for your previous night. It looks at both the environment of your bedroom, such as disturbances during the night or whether your room was too bright for an ideal night’s rest, as well as how you actually slept yourself.

A pitch black room might boost your score by +10, but a car alarm going off repeatedly might lower it -20. Sense will give you a breakdown of your score, begin to notice problem patterns and help you to fix whatever is preventing you from reaching100 each night.

Smart Alarm

We all have a natural sleep cycle, but a normal alarm will wake you up regardless of when's best for you. Sense's Smart Alarm knows the right time to wake you up, so you will feel alert and refreshed.

Here's how that works. Your Sleep Pill tells Sense when you begin to naturally stir, a signal that you're ready to wake up. If you've set your alarm for close to that time, the Smart Alarm will go off, waking you up at the perfect time for your sleep rhythm.

If you want to be up by 9:30, but you're already half awake at 9:15, then your alarm should go off then, not wait for you to fall deeper into sleep and force you awake later feeling terrible.

Hidden at the top of Sense is a powerful speaker that Sense uses to play the alarm sounds that'll wake you up.

Sensors

Sense contains sophisticated sensors that are able to sense noise - in your bedroom and beyond; pick up on light, whether continuous or flashing; monitor temperature and humidity conditions; and identify particulates such as dust and pollen.

Ambient Light Sensor monitors the levels of light in your room. A good night's sleep is helped dramatically by having a completely dark bedroom without sudden interruptions such as a phone or car headlights.
Temperature and Humidity Sensors are able to detect the temperature and humidity throughout the day in your bedroom, helping Sense learn how you like your bedroom and under which conditions you sleep best.
Particulate Sensor can spot the tiniest of things floating around in the air, so tiny you can't even see most of them. But they are there, and they are potential sleep interruptors for many; more than 50 million people suffer from nasal allergies. If the pollen count is high in your neighborhood and Sense detects a rising level of microscopic particles in your bedroom, you should know.

Wireless, Audio and More

Wi-Fi allows Sense to always be connected to your home network via a powerful Wi-Fi chip inside, letting you know what is going on in your bedroom, even when you're not home.
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) lets you control Sense when you're near it. Sense uses BLE for things like setting alarms and changing settings quickly.
ANT is a low energy communication protocol that lets Sleep Pill and Sense communicate with one another seamlessly.
Proximity Sensor to see when you wave your hand over Sense to check the current conditions or stop your alarm in the morning.
Sensitive Microphone to pick up on snoring, sleep talking and noise disturbances in the night.
Speaker for playing sounds to help you sleep and wake you up.
RGB LEDs to give Sense its iconic glow.

Design

Too often technology simply looks like just another piece of technology. With Sense, we wanted to design something that would fit into any room. The design itself functions to help all of the intelligent sensors inside work perfectly, while remaining out-of-sight.

Sense is available in two beautiful colors, cotton and charcoal.

Behind the soft-touch polycarbonate shell is an acoustic mesh that wraps around the whole device. This mesh hides and protects everything inside, all while having the sensors function perfectly.

What's Inside?

Sense isn't just a pretty face. It's built to last. Its serious mechanical structure protects four printed circuit boards that are stacked on-top of one another. For us to fit so much into such a small space, we really had to get creative with things. The resulting design is something we think is as beautiful inside, as is out.

Who is Sense For?

Survey after survey reports that most of us—as much as two-thirds—aren't getting enough sleep. Sense is for them. But Sense is also for more than them. Because millions think they're getting better sleep than they really are.

Sleep improves our memory and immune systems; it helps in weight management and dealing with stress; it makes us more creative and productive. We've built Sense for anyone one who cares about those things, which is pretty much everyone.

How We Got Here

For the past few months, we've been heads down designing, prototyping, coding, testing, breaking and building.

Where We Are Now

We recently successfully completed our first EVT build (engineering validation testing). This involved manufacturing, assembling and testing the functionality of all the sensors involved in Sense and Sleep Pill.

We've started doing in-home testing with our team and will be gradually increasing the size of our testing in the coming weeks and months.

Next Steps

We are now starting our second EVT build to incorporate a number of changes and improvements we discovered while testing. After this, we will freeze changes in the electronics and move into DVT (design verification testing) where we will test everything from the mechanicals, to the electrical, to firmware and make sure everything works as designed.

The final stage is doing a PVT (production verification testing) run which is designed to assure the required quality and robustness.

We've selected experienced manufacturing partners that have built and shipped billions of devices. We're willing to bet you own a few of them.

Timeline

August - Kick off DVT
September - Ship initial rewards (t-shirts and posters) to Kickstarter backers
October - Kick off PVT
November - Ship initial units to Kickstarter backers

Building with Sense

You'll always have access to your data via our API. Take it, play with it, graph it, do whatever you want with it. It's yours. That's important to us.

We enjoy tinkering with and building on-top of other products we like. Sense will let you have that experience.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on what you might want to build with Sense, and how you could directly interact with the hardware, and the data it collects.

Our Team

We're a team of designers, engineers, and operations staff based in San Francisco, California. Collectively, we have built products and services that millions of people around the world use and love.

Why Kickstarter?

When building a product that is focused on something so personal as sleep, we didn't want to build it hidden away somewhere in silence. Over the coming months, we want to learn from you what your patterns are, what affects your sleep, what you care about and make sure we build the best possible product.

We're also having a lot of fun working on Sense and want share everything we're learning along the way with you.

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