Ultrahuman Home
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Ultrahuman Home was released earlier this year, but has just been upgraded to enable a form of sleep tracking that doesn’t require any form of wrist-worn wearable.
It’s called Ambient Sleep Monitoring, and is part of a software update that begins rolling out today, November 21st, according to Ultrahuman.
The concept is based around using multiple sensors to judge how good an environment your bedroom actually is for sleeping in. And it generates an Ambient Sleep Score to offer a quick view on exactly how bad or good you have it.
That score is based on a whole collection of stats, including air quality, CO2 level, temperature, humidity, noise level across the night and light level.
The Ultrahuman Home also uses artificial intelligence to separate sounds you, the sleeper, make from those coming from elsewhere. Not only is that important in working out how noisy a room really is, it enables the other key feature coming to the Home, detection of snoring and coughing.
Ultrahuman says its software can “distinguish snoring, coughing, breathing, and baby crying from ambient sounds like cars, sirens, or barking dogs.”
How much you cough or snore is fed into the system to spit out a Respiratory Health Score. A poor score could potentially be an indicator of sleep apnea, and solve arguments between partners over whether someone does, or does not, actually snore.
Of course, the ideal way to use an Ultrahuman Home for sleep tracking is not with the box flying solo, but with one of the company’s Ring Air smart rings too. This will then link sleep quality indicators harvested through movement sensor and HR sensor data from the Ultrahuman Ring Air and the Ultrahuman Home’s environmental sensors.
Ultrahuman has also announced some additional upcoming software features, due in December 2025. These include linking CO2 as a factor in stress indicators noted by the smart ring, and logging how blue light levels detected by the Ultrahuman Home affect how long it takes you to get to sleep — as judged by the Ring Air.
From December, Ultrahuman also plans to make the Home capable of controlling smart home devices that could help improve matters, like air purifiers, over the Matter communication standard.
The Ultrahuman Home was criticised at launch by some reviewers for being a fairly expensive home gadget that, while perhaps accurate, didn’t do much. These new and future upgrades go some way to filling out its feature set.
Ultrahuman has dropped the price of the Home from $549 to $399, and there’s currently a 15% Black Friday discount available, which runs until December 1st.
