Inflatable air mattress alert and monitoring system
AssigneeSleep Number Corporation
InventorsRob Nunn, Wade Daniel Palashewski, Matthew Wayne Tilstra, Stacy Stusynski, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt
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Abstract
This disclosure describes, among other things, techniques for waking a user by changing the user's sleep environment. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a central controller of an air mattress system, at least one user alarm setting, generating, via the central controller, at least one instruction based on the received user alarm setting, and transmitting, from the central controller, the at least one instruction to a first component of the air mattress system to adjust a feature of the first component.
Claims21
A system comprising:
- a first bed system, comprising:
- a first pressure sensor;
- and
- a first central controller comprising:
- a first processor configured to:
- determine presence of a first user in the first bed system using the first pressure sensor;
- and
- responsive to a determination that the first user is not in the first bed system, send an alert to a second bed system;
- and
- the second bed system, comprising:
- a second pressure sensor;
- and
- a second central controller comprising:
- a second processor configured to:
- receive the alert from the first bed system;
- and
- responsive to receiving the alert from the first bed system, issue commands configured to initiate a wake-up process for a second user of the second bed system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.