Online mattress retailer Eight adds Alexa integration
David Perry
4-5 minutes
• David Perry
, September 14, 2017
NEW YORK-- Online mattress retailer Eight said that all of its smart
sleep-tech products will now integrate with the Amazon Echo and Dot via
an Alexa skill. The company’s recently expanded Smart Mattress
collection and non-wearable Smart Mattress Cover will be enabled for
voice control commands thanks to the new skill via the Amazon Alexa app,
officials said.
“With more than 10 million Amazon Echo and Dot users, we saw a demand
for a seamless smart home experience to be brought also to the bedroom,”
said Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight. “Eight is leading the sleep
industry into the era of personalized and optimized sleep, and our
integration with Alexa was a natural progression for our products. By
adding this capability, we are offering customers a fully integrated
sleep system that fits unintrusively into their lives.”
Mars+“Eight's new Mars+ is a smart bedding offering.”
Through the Eight skill for Alexa, users can use simple conversational
commands and questions, such as, “Alexa, how did I sleep last night?”
and “Alexa, what’s my sleep score?” to gather data from their Eight
products without scrolling through a phone screen. They can also control
bed temperature on their Eight Smart Mattress through commands such as
“Alexa, warm up the left side of the bed,” or as simple as “Alexa, my
bed is too cold,” creating the most seamless sleep experience available,
the company said.
Through Alexa voice commands on the Amazon Echo and Dot, Eight Sleep
users can learn theirs or their partner’s sleep score, gather their
entire sleep data from the night before (hours slept, percentage of
tossing and turning, percentage of deep sleep, etc.),\ and turn bed
warming on/off on each bed side, the company said.
Eight’s products are available on eightsleep.com, Costco.com,
BestBuy.com and at select Best Buy retail locations.
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