Summary: A Taiwan-based company is unveiling two distinct smart sleep monitoring pads at CES 2025, one for people and one for pets. The iSleePad is designed for humans, utilizing contactless sensing technology to monitor vital signs such as heart rate, breathing, and sleep position. It also offers features like real-time alerts for bed exits and promotes deep sleep through Schumann wave technology. The iPetSuite, for pets, uses similar technology to monitor pets’ heart rate, breathing, and sleep position. Both products offer a smartphone app for real-time data tracking and long-term health monitoring.
Key Takeaways:
- Two distinct products: The company is presenting iSleePad for humans and iPetSuite for pets, both leveraging contactless sensing technology for sleep monitoring.
- Enhanced sleep tracking: The iSleePad tracks heart rate, breathing, sleep position, and offers features like bed exit alerts, while iPetSuite monitors pets’ sleep and health.
- Smartphone integration: Both products provide users and pet owners with real-time data and long-term health tracking through a smartphone app.
At CES 2025, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute is unveiling a range of wellness technologies, including the iSleePad, a contactless sleep monitoring device, and iPetSuite, a pet’s version of the iSleePad.
iSleePad is a sleep pad featuring Industrial Technology Research Institute’s low-power microwave sensor technology for contactless sleep monitoring. Designed for all ages, it tracks heart rate, breathing, and sleep position without adhesive patches. It also provides real-time alerts for bed exits to enhance safety and is designed to promote deep sleep with its Schumann wave mode.
Lightweight and foldable, iSleePad can be directly installed on existing bedding. It features a smartphone app that displays real-time data and long-term physiological records. iSleePad supports sleep monitoring both at home and for medical care.
Booth visitors at CES 2025 can experience iSleePad to test its comfort. They can explore the contactless sensing technology that monitors vital signs and access health data via a smartphone app. Visitors will also see how the bed exit alert system detects position changes to prevent falls.
iSleePad includes these technology features:
- Low-power microwave sensor technology: With a measurement distance of up to 15 cm, it requires no sensors attached to the skin. iSleePad uses μW Doppler microwaves to detect vital signs from the phase change data in transmitted and received signals. The sensing power of this technology is 1,000 times less than the transmission power of a smartphone. Its energy-efficient radar sensor minimizes operational costs.
- Flexible pressure-sensitive antenna: iSleePad features a flexible, pressure-sensing antenna technology that detects multiple pressure points, allowing it to monitor sleep positions and activity status. With over 95% accuracy, it provides alerts to caregivers about abnormal bed exits, enhancing safety especially for elderly users and those with health conditions.
- Schumann resonance generator: iSleePad utilizes Schumann waves to promote deep sleep and relaxation through low-frequency electromagnetic waves. These waves resonate with the body’s natural frequencies, creating a restful sleep environment.
- Multi-person management: The app allows simultaneous connections to multiple iSleePads. This feature is especially advantageous for nursing homes and retirement communities because it provides a scalable sleep monitoring solution.
iPetSuite is a pet’s version of iSleePad, utilizing low-power microwave sensor technology for pet sleep monitoring. Designed for both dogs and cats, it tracks heart rate, breathing and sleep position, and can be directly used or installed on existing pet beds.
iPetSuite includes a smartphone app that displays real-time data and long-term physiological records, allowing for sleep monitoring and health tracking at home, in veterinary hospitals, or pet hotels, offering insights into the pets’ overall health and giving pet owners peace of mind.
Industrial Technology Research Institute’s wellness technologies are making their US debut at CES 2025. Other technologies being displayed by the company are KneeBO, a portable knee joint exoskeleton designed for lower-limb muscle training and walking improvement; HipBO, a lightweight powered hip joint exoskeleton; and the AI Badminton Trainer, an artificial intelligence-based badminton training technology.
Photo caption: iSleePad
Photo credit: Industrial Technology Research Institute
