Samsung’s wearables and ACs are teaming up to offer you the best night’s sleep ever

Most modern Air Conditioners (AC) are Wi-Fi enabled, giving you complete control over the unit’s air speed, temperature, and distinct modes remotely. Not only can these ACs adjust to your home’s fluctuating temperatures, they can also be scheduled to turn on or off at specific times.

Maintaining the perfect temperature throughout the night isn’t the only key to a good night’s sleep, but it is undeniably a big part of the equation — an equation that Samsung is attempting to solve with a new ‘Good Sleep‘ mode.

Good Sleep is a new Samsung AC feature, though it needs a compatible Samsung wearable to function, as highlighted by Samsung in a new blog post (via SamMobile).

The feature aims to address the fact that there is no single optimal temperature for sleep. Well, there is an optimal temperature range to fall asleep (between 60 and 67 degrees Fahrenheit), but our bodies’ needs change throughout the night. “That is why many people wake up despite setting the air conditioner to this one, “optimal” temperature before going to bed. In reality, this ‘optimality’ is different during the stages of falling asleep, deep sleep and returning to wakefulness in the morning, suggests the South Korean tech giant.

This is where Google Sleep comes in. Developed with a Kyunghee University (South Korea) study as its fundamental base, the mode leverages Samsung wearables’ ability to monitor your sleep stages. The wearable speaks to your AC throughout the night, essentially changing your room’s temperature as you progress through different stages of sleep.

Here’s how Good Sleep fine-tunes your room

Source: Samsung
 

• Falling asleep: Good Sleep quickly lowers your room’s temperature as your wearable detects that you’re starting to doze off. This temperature is maintained for 90 minutes.
• Deep sleep: After 90 minutes, Good Sleep commands the AC to raise the temperature “to prepare for the deeper stages of sleep – N2 and N3.”
• Throughout the night: As users alternate between REM and NREM sleep, Good Sleep adjusts the temperature by a few degrees roughly three times per night. “Towards the end of the night, the air conditioner maintains the temperature at a high level but with a gentle breeze to create a refreshing atmosphere.”

Ideally, this Good Sleep should feature with any smart AC connected to Samsung SmartThings, but that, at least for now, isn’t the case. Good Sleep is limited to Samsung’s range of AR-B, AR-C, AR-D, and AR-F, many of which are available to purchase in the US via Samsung HVAC. The feature might be available for a wider range of smart ACs in the future.

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