Outcome

Vision

Aim at helping kids to have a more pleasant go-to-bed time, we want to create an ecosystem of connected devices that can transform the bedroom into a soothing environment to ease kids into sleep and being able to notify their parents about the kids' status.

Functionality: If the sun has set and you turn the doorknob to enter the bedroom, atmosphere lights on that resemble stars will be sent to ceiling and Teddy Bear will come for your accompany. When ready to sleep and go to bed, you squeeze a teddy bear for certain amount of time (5-10 seconds) and the atmosphere light will start dimming to off over 15 minutes, and you can go to sleep with your Teddy. The color of the doorknob will change its color, indicating to parents about the children's status.

Team Roles: 

Vision Lead: Xiaolin Yang

Developers - Zhenyang Li, Kedi Zhang, Dong Qin

Designers - Kira Mulshine, Yang Yang, Xitong Deng

Liasions - Xi Zhang, Mengyang Hong, Mohamed Yassin

Prototype Proposals

The following is an outline of each of the products that will make up the SleepStars IoT ecosystem.

Notes: Blues lines indicating current phase functions. Green lines indicating future innovation and customized options.

Product One | Doorknob

If the sun has set and you turn the doorknob to enter the bedroom, it lit up the atmosphere lights on the ceiling resemble stars.

The outside lights can show kids status to their parents when they went to sleep.

More details: 

http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/sleepstars-doorknob 

Product Two | Ambient Light 

The atmosphere lights on the ceiling help to relieve the anxiety of kids and create a comforting atmosphere to help kids fall asleep.

More details: 

http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/sleepstars-ambient-light 

Product Three | Teddybear Timer

When you are ready to sleep and go to bed, you squeeze a teddy bear for certain amount of time (5-10 seconds) and the atmosphere lights will start dimming to off over 15 minutes.

More details: 

http://integratedinnovation.xsead.cmu.edu/gallery/projects/sleepstars-teddy-bear 

Storyboard

Working Prototype

Reflections on Success:

The team created this ecosystem in a really short time period, among which we utilized strengths of each team member and tried new things while learning to improve different skills at the same time. This is a good starting point for looking more into the IoT technologies, thinking more and balance their strengths and weaknesses to better serve our societies. 

Future iterations of this product can explore more ways to help young children ease into sleep on their own, which is a transition they must make as they grow up. We discussed incorporating story time into the experience, either alone or with their parent. Additionally, we discussed exploring ways in which parents and children could spend time together with Sleepstars and to also enhance the autonomous experience the child has in his or her bedroom when the parent cannot spend time with him or her (due to busy work/life schedules). 

For each product of the ecosystem, see our individual galleries for more details.