Google’s next Nest Hub can use radar to track your sleep and ask questions

Earlier this week, we reported that Google may be updating Nest Nest with Soli technology, a report 9to5Google Now, he suggests it might be something unexpected: sleep tracking.

If you’re not familiar, Soli is Google’s radar technology used to detect gestures and human presence that first appeared in the Pixel 4 (discontinued in August), and although it’s not present in any of the Google’s current Pixel devices, it now appears in devices. Smart home, like the Nest Thermostat.

So there is a precedent that Google is integrating the technology into its smart home devices. The Hub Hub really looks like an alarm clock, and since it doesn’t have a built-in camera, it might be more acceptable in the bedroom for sleep tracking. But I still have questions about how it works.

As almost all sleep aid advertisements indicate, we all sleep differently. Solly has been very petite so far, so what if she rolls over on the other side of the bed? Are you going to lose track of yourself? What if you have an animal that likes to come close and lie down (or on its head)? Would you rather start tracking their traffic?

There is also a problem with the bedside tables. Those who own bedside tables may have completely different places from where they sleep, and some may not at all. So far, Solly has only been used for directions, so it’s unclear how Google is going to deal with the fact that it will have to deal with identifying traffic and being in a variety of angles and distances. .

Maybe Google will surprise us and find out everything when it advertises the product, or maybe even sleep tracking will only work under certain circumstances. Despite my questions, I think there are plenty of other ways that clock control logic makes sense.

I’m not necessarily able to speak coherently the first time I wake up, so the ability, as my colleagues have suggested, to swing my hand violently in the center of the nest to turn off the alarm isn’t a simple trick. People who wake up to music can also signal to skip a song if the song that comes out isn’t, they want to start their day.

If all this sounds interesting to you, 9to5Google The report notes that the single-air-conditioning Nest Hub is expected to arrive this year. FCC policies that arrived this week may also indicate that a product may be arriving soon. While they don’t always guarantee that a product will be released, sometimes we see them before official product announcements.