While many smart wearable devices advertise sleep quality tracking, many people often remove their wristbands and watches when they go to sleep and only put them back on the next morning, often leaving the sleep tracking feature unused. Xenoma's e-skin, showcased at CES 2020, is a piece of clothing specifically designed for sleep and rest that combines sleep quality tracking, physical activity data recording, and fall detection.
Xenoma, founded in 2015 from the University of Tokyo and now operating independently, initially developed an e-skin designed for sports training. The version demonstrated at CES 2020 is designed for home wear or sleep wear. It also adds fall detection to address the needs of elderly home care, allowing connected phones to receive instant push notifications to prevent elderly people from falling or collapsing at home due to other reasons and missing the best opportunity for rescue due to lack of immediate assistance.
In addition to providing fall detection functions, the e-skin for home and sleep use also provides body movement data recording and sleep quality tracking functions. It can not only record body movement data through built-in sensors, but also obtain exercise suggestions by connecting with mobile phones, smart speakers and other devices. It can also analyze sleep quality and provide appropriate suggestions.
As for e-skin for home or sleep use, there will be different versions, and it will be made of skin-friendly, soft and washable materials (the detachable sensor element must be removed first). The Xenoma team also revealed that in the future, it will provide clothing designs suitable for local use to meet more localized usage needs.
