Imagine if your gadgets talked to each other over coffee in the kitchen. After pleasures and “pass the cakes”, what would they discuss? Well, you, Of course. “Sleep Jeremy well last night?” My air purifier might ask my smartwatch, compares notes of breathing, air circulation and anything else. “Can we keep him happier and healthier?” They ask each other. “He’s obviously overwhelming … Can we help him tackle it?”
This future odd vision was presented during Samsung’s big CES press conference in Las Vegas in January, and frankly it felt a little clumsy. After all, the dishwasher has googly eyes and a personality. Like the animatronic robots at Disney World, they described a future both wonderfully impossible and as far away as a dream. But here is the thing: It is not.
On Wednesday, April 9, Samsung revealed a major update to the Smartthings app (Release 3.28.25 – What happened to cool code names?). It includes extended support for Matter 1.4 and Energy Management devices, a new intercom functionality and extended routine features. And for the first time, it all integrates directly with the Samsung Health app to help your gadgets make personal decisions to improve your health and well -being.
The amount of data we generate in society today exceeds greatly the amount we are able to spend
Jonathan Gabrio
“The amount of data we generate in society today exceeds the quantity we are able to use,” Jonathan Gabrio, head of the Connected Experience Center in Samsung, told me a few weeks ago. “How do we use AI and different kinds of connection technologies to make it useful for the average person? And sleep is one of these huge options.”
Gabrio leads Connected Experience Center, where he examines how AI and IoT technologies gather. Your Robovac and Smart Ring may not have fake personalities, but they collect huge amounts of data.
One of the biggest challenges facing the world of technology is to transform all this information into something meaningful and actionable, a fact I’ve seen first-hand: After half a decade, I recently withdrew my Oura ring. Daily control of my sleep cycles revealed exactly nothing I felt I could use. Samsung believes that the power of SmartThings can make it easier to learn about our sleep patterns – and by learning, improve them.
“How do we not just do Better things But make Things better“Said Gabrio.” It is the interesting part of the conversation we are on as a society now. “
A new bedtime routine
Smartthings today allows you to create routines, a way to tie your devices together: You can set the mood for dinner by attenuating the lighting and, for example, putting mood music on. A sleep routine may be able to adjust lighting, temperature, humidity and other environmental factors to optimize for the deep gossip that you don’t seem to get more.
With the new update, these routines can be triggered automatically when your body actually calls the evening or wakes up in the morning rather than on a fixed schedule.
A good night’s sleep depends on more than just closing your eyes and counting sheep: There are biological factors such as when you last ate and how much wine you ate before bed, for example as well as environmental factors. Thanks to smart devices, a huge data stream about your environment is possible that simply did not exist before. Think lumen, CO2 levels, humidity and temperature and so on.
Samsung’s Smartthings can optimize based on data from all Of these things, not only are the biometric data from your Galaxy Watch. It can detect if you sleep best when the temperature is between 61-65 degrees Fahrenheit / 16-18 degrees Celsius and adjust your heat pump to actively maintain this range. The same routine can detect when you wake up and automatically heat up the room, lights the lights and turns on your morning news.
Here’s the best part: Tracks that info for a few days – you can see it in a new sleep environment report – and a brand new routine establishment assistant (eventually!) Will use generative AI to build a routine for you. You don’t have to mine through the data to find out what keeps you snoring in other words. And if you have a newer Samsung TV that can act as a Smartthings hub, it would suggest that you turn off the basketball and get ready for bed.
Sleep Science 2.0
Do you sound a little crazy? It’s more popular than you might think. Sleep tracking has risen 17% since 2020 among younger users of Samsung’s portable range of watches and rings, Gabrio tells me. 30% of these people use the function, according to Samsung, which means that sleep tracking is not just a problem for Harried parents and overtime employees. It’s a big concern for everyone. But strangely enough, our modern obsession with sleep has not really changed the basic elements.
“Interestingly, our understanding of healthy sleep has not really changed even with all this new data,” Vanessa HillAn Australian sleep scientist, Techradar says. “The recommendation remains 7-9 hours for adults who vary by age … what has evolved is our understanding of sleep health as multidimensional (goes beyond equal duration).
Our understanding of healthy sleep has not really changed even with all this new data
Vanessa Hill, sleep scientist
“Recent research suggests that sleep regularity, maintaining a consistent bedtime and waking time may be more predictable to long -term health than sleep duration alone.”
Hill does not recommend poring over your statistics daily, as I had done for years with my Oura ring. For some, continuous data may increase stress or lead to Orthosomnia (Anxiety -driven sleep disorders from the occupation of measurements), she notes. It was me in a nutshell, but thanks to AI and its wider ability to analyze more data points in length, we can gradually improve behavior.
“AI can transform health data (which is often complex) into personal insight that helps make it easier to understand,” she says. Applying this insight and sticking to a new routine can be tough, as anyone who has tried to cost will tell you. Samsung’s app sorts smart people in categories with cute expensive – avatars – I’m apparently a penguin. Automatic routines should make it easier to stick to our beliefs. And it can all help you drift easier and stay asleep longer. Dreamland Waiting!
