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Intelligent Alarm Pillow

 

Group 15 Members:
Joshua Garrett, Youngshik Shin, Yury Markovskiy, Rapheal Grange, David Tan

Our mission is to improve the quality of sleep for millions of working people via the Intelligent Alarm Pillow (IAP), an integrated wireless, noiseless wake-up system built right into a pillow.

Noisy alarm clocks wake up everybody in the room, posing a problem for couples and roommates that work on different schedules. Health/safety professionals and new parents who need rest while on-call require individual alarms that can be easily set and controlled. Most alarm systems are unsuitable for the hearing impaired, or people who sleep with earplugs. Furthermore, ordinary alarm clocks need to be reset constantly for people whose schedules change throughout the week. An ideal wake-up system would follow the user’s schedule, not disturb partners or neighbors, and would be effortless to schedule and control.

The IAP wake-up system offers all of these capabilities at an affordable cost. The core IAP technology includes both software and hardware, marrying the latest in wireless technology to the conventional pillow. IAP scheduling software provides a user-friendly interface for your home PC or a PDA to communicate with the pillow wirelessly, triggering a vibration-based alarm that wakes you, and only you.

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