Sleep Sage - a personalised intelligent sleep aid platform

Sleep Sage——个性化智能助眠平台

• 批准号: 104390
• 金额: $ 34.55万
• 依托单位: KOKOON TECHNOLOGY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104390
• 关键词: Sleep; Sage; personalised; intelligent; sleep

Sleep is critical for health and wellbeing; however, two thirds of adults worldwide achieve less than the recommended 7-9 hours' sleep a night. Sleep deprivation costs the UK economy £40billion/year ($262billion in EU) in lost productivity and work absence and is strongly linked to increased risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, depression and anxiety. It is now declared a 'public health problem', predicted to rise significantly due to modern lifestyles including psychosocial stress, unbalanced diet, lack of exercise, electronic devices overuse.The global sleep aids market is dominated by pharmaceutical solutions, fitness trackers and sleep/meditation apps however these are limited by accuracy, usefulness and only provide a general approach to a problem which is multi-factorial. There is a clear unmet need for a personalised solution that can generate measurable benefits in terms of improved quality/quantity of sleep.The proposed project seeks to develop 'Sleep Sage' -- a personalised intelligent sleep aid platform, designed to help users fall asleep easier and better manage and understand their sleep. Unlike competing solutions which monitor activity and present this information back to a user to make their own behavioural changes, Sleep Sage (comprising smart headphones and a sophisticated software platform) utilises audio, sensors and Artificial Intelligence which together form a 'feedback loop' where the effect of audio can be measured and the audio is adjusted in response, delivering measurable benefits (better and more sleep) and generating significant socio-economic impacts e.g. improving health and wellbeing, quality of life, reducing costly health complications related to sleep deprivation, and improving productivity.Work to date has focused on developing the headphones and validating the concept (as an MVP) with a basic software platform using limited available audio content. Kokoon have already generated pre-sales orders for their MVP product and have gained strong market interest from distributors, retailers and e-commerce -- placing them in a strong position to commercialise Sleep Sage. Proof of Concept has demonstrated positive results; however, to become a fully viable commercial offering (moving beyond competing in the established headphone market), it is now critical that Kokoon technically advance the functionality and accuracy of the software platform to ensure mass adoption. This project focuses on advancing the platform to TRL7, and validating its performance in a user trial, to aid and support rapid adoption.The project will deliver significant export led growth for Kokoon, a substantial ROI, increased employment and further opportunity for R&D investment.

睡眠对健康和幸福至关重要;然而，全球三分之二的成年人每晚的睡眠时间少于建议的7-9小时。睡眠剥夺每年给英国经济造成400亿英镑（欧盟为2620亿美元）的生产力损失和缺勤，并与肥胖、心脏病、糖尿病、癌症、抑郁和焦虑的风险增加密切相关。它现在被宣布为“公共卫生问题”，预计由于现代生活方式，包括心理社会压力，不平衡的饮食，缺乏锻炼，电子设备过度使用，它将显着上升。全球睡眠辅助市场主要由药物解决方案，健身追踪器和睡眠/冥想应用程序主导，但这些都受到准确性，实用性的限制，只能提供一个通用的方法来解决多因素的问题。目前，市场对个人化解决方案的需求明显未得到满足，该解决方案可以在改善睡眠质量/数量方面产生可衡量的效益。拟议项目旨在开发“Sleep Sage”-一个个性化的智能睡眠辅助平台，旨在帮助用户更容易入睡，更好地管理和了解他们的睡眠。与监测活动并将此信息反馈给用户以改变自己的行为的竞争解决方案不同，Sleep Sage（包括智能耳机和复杂的软件平台）利用音频、传感器和人工智能，它们一起形成“反馈回路”，其中可以测量音频的效果并响应地调整音频，提供可衡量的效益（更好和更多的睡眠）并产生重大的社会经济影响，例如改善健康和福祉，生活质量，减少与睡眠剥夺有关的昂贵的健康并发症，和提高生产力。迄今为止的工作集中在开发耳机和验证的概念（作为一个MVP）与基本的软件平台使用有限的可用音频内容。Kokoon已经为其MVP产品产生了预售订单，并获得了分销商，零售商和电子商务的强烈市场兴趣-使他们在商业化Sleep Sage方面处于有利地位。概念验证已经展示了积极的结果;然而，要成为一个完全可行的商业产品（超越现有耳机市场的竞争），现在Kokoon在技术上提高软件平台的功能和准确性以确保大规模采用至关重要。该项目的重点是将平台推进到TRL 7，并在用户试用中验证其性能，以帮助和支持快速采用。该项目将为Kokoon带来显著的出口带动型增长，可观的投资回报率，增加就业机会和进一步的研发投资机会。