Dream To Accomplish

Literally billions of people neglect correct sleep habits for many reasons. At the height of youth and adult age many people could think this as irrelevant. Although in stages as early childhood, disrespect the correct sleep habits could mean serious consequences as defects in synapses formation in the neocórtex which means a tangible risk for mental disturbs as mental insanity, bipolarity and hyperactivity.

Our goal is to improve people's life quality making their sleep habits
better. As you know, right now we live in a very fast paced lifestyle
where the search for information and the daily life are immediate and
this is increasing the stress level among people, which involves
conequences as sleep routine modification. This modificated sleep
routine generate a cascade effect that can lead the inidvidual to have a
low performance on its daily life activities, also can lead to obesity
and psychological problems.

There is no form of life that does not need to sleep which brings the question of why is it necessary for human beings to sleep. In the last 20 years, studies have shown that improper sleep have irreversible consequences at physiological and psychological levels. Then, better than asking which physiological functions are affected by improper sleep, we should ask which functions are not affected by it.

Among the physiological consequences of improper sleep we have the dysregulated hunger stimulus through the ghrelin hormone and lack of stimulus for satiety through the leptin hormone. This brings tough health consequences because it forces an excessive consumption of calories in a daily basis.

Our target audience is people that pass through heavy routines that force them to an improper sleep. Also we have people that pass through this because of personal problem or illness and ignore the consequences of improper sleep.

Device development including optical, thermal and sound sensors, a light emitter and a sound box. Such a device will be synchronized and managed by a mobile app. Data will be sync via a third party SmartWatch / SmartBand or company-owned data between the phone and the device.

Once installed in the room, the user stores data from the sleep record and previous user settings. Using sensors, the device will record the user’ movements  while sleeping, the enviroment’s sound and capture light intensity and together with the synchronization of a SmartWatch / SmartBand will generate a user’s sleep curve.

To balance negative effects of the environment, the device will regulate the environment with its own illumination and emit a sound (inaudible) that is suitable for the user’s current stage of sleep.

The more records made in the application, the better the sleep aid will be. Pre-set records will already provide an improvement in sleep quality.

Dream to accomplish is our proposal that suggests an optimized way to sleep within a "smart room". It'll control the enviroment through sensors by monitoring the user's sleeping status with his movements in bed and temperature,with the smartband/smartwatch, controling the sound by emitting sound waves that'll be able to cancel the external noise, and by suiting the luminosity of the room to make it easier to have a proper and confortable sleep.

Our solution will use a tool that'll be instaled in the user's home and it'll be responsable for the enviroment adaptations that'll be needed to impove his sleep. It'll be controled by an app in wich each user's data will be saved, not only that but also making conections and information exchange between the smartband or smartwatch, the enviroment adaptator and the app through bluetooth conection. That data exchange will be useful for the app and the smartband/smartwatch to send the respective configuration to the enviroment adaptator.

According to recent studies outlined in the book Why We Sleep of the Mathew Walker scientist, a good sleep quality according to the surveys helps us to memorize, retain learning for students. According to studies the melatonin hormone activated by the lack of light when we sleep is affected by lights; a study done with a group of people who were drunk and another group of people without sleep, after 20 hours,the group of people without sleep, was worse in the test than people  drunk ,with that we came to the conclusion that lack of sleep prevents us from reaching our greatest potential

For the moment, we're not serving anyone with our solution yet. Our expectation for the future is to attend at least two thousand five hundred people. In five years, around fifteen thousand.

We have set as our goals to improve the user's sleep quality and relieve the physiological and psychological consequences through the application's sleep analysis. For example, we already know that, in case of depression, the subject reduced REM sleep's latency, that information will be gathered by the application and would ask the user to look for medical assistance, if it's necessary.

To reach our goals, we'll encounter several obstacles. Among them, our financial difficulties to put in action our solution, not having structure for its development and lack of knowledge in some areas addressed, needing professionals of the area. Future obstacles that we could face would be the acceptance and insertion of our product in the market becouse of the price it might have and the costumer's fear that it won't be able to accomplish what it promises.

To overcome financial barriers, we look forward for this prize to improve our project development.  Joint Venture with a partener company is desirable and a IPO a final step. Also, we look for an upgrade on our specializations to cover the lack of knowledge in those areas as well as interested people in the project. With the problem of acceptance and insertion of our product in the market, we look forward to find the best cost benefit for us and for our clients, also we desire to accomplish trust trough marketing, and finally efficiency improvement.

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Multicultural team with technical and achademical background

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To overcome financial barriers, we look forward for this prize to improve our project development.  Joint Venture with a partner company is desirable and IPO a final step. Also, we look for an upgrade on our specializations to cover the lack of knowledge in those areas as well as interested people in the project. With the problem of acceptance and insertion of our product in the market, we look forward to find the best cost benefit for us and for our clients, also we desire to accomplish trust trough marketing, and finally efficiency improvement.

For us to financially sustein ourselfs, we'll count on with the sales of the sensors wich will be installed in the residences, the maintenance and the application's premium version will be developed.

To gain visibility and look for partnerships and funding.

The project will introduce a mobile app which syncs with a smartband/smartwatch and perform data exchange with it about sleep process details. Also a device for deeper sleep analysis will be developed an offered as an upgrade for better results. Our focus is product based in order to get known into a mouth to mouth process. Also we plan to associate with hotel chains to make tests available for everyone.

We believe that having a partnership with Google would be interesting because they are working on the development of a smart home project. In addition, we are interested in partnering with MIT in the part of sleep-related studies.

Our team will use AI to trace the user's profile, this is highly important because with it we can offer a better fitted service to the client's needs. Our plan is to set light and sound sensors along with a system that will analyse the subject's reactions to optimize his sleep quality acording to what he needs.