Chinese hardware startup Sleepace, maker of a gadget that monitors people’s sleep,
Sleepace’s sole device right now is RestOn, which lies across the width of a bed in order to monitor a user’s sleep cycles, movements, respiratory rate, and heart rate. It costs
RMB 1,099 (US$177), which makes it a pricey alternative to using a cheap fitness tracker
wristband to analyze your sleep, but the startup reckons that its bit of kit is a more
comfortable way to do it as the user doesn’t have to wear any gizmos while they try to sleep.
As you’d expect, your quantified sleep data is presented in an accompanying app.
The Sleepace team first hit the market on Chinese crowdfunding site Demohour, then got
just over US$3 million in series A funding last summer from Gobi Ventures. At the start of
this year, Sleepace took the Reston to overseas consumers after wrapping up an
Indiegogo campaign that soared past its goal.
This is the latest in a series of moves that JD – Alibaba’s biggest rival in China – has made to partner with startups that make smart home or fitness gadgets, such as JD’s
launch of a Kickstarter-style site. Last summer, JD joined Tencent in throwing funding at Picooc, which makes a
set of smart scales.
As a part of JD’s financial backing of Sleepace, the startup will make use of JD’s smart
home platform to make Reston work with the JD+ controller app for web-connected home devices. The backing of Luolai, meanwhile, will give the gadget a big
visibility boost in the chain’s furniture stores.
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