In March, Google quite unexpectedly presented the successor to the Google Nest Hub, the Google Nest Hub 2. The device came with, among other things, ‘Sleep Sensing’. A feature that allows Google to ‘assess’ your sleep quality. Google now comes with an update to improve the sound indication in Sleep Sensing, this to let you prove that you are not the one who is snoring.
‘Proof of no snoring’
To make a good sleep analysis, the Google Nest Hub 2 is equipped with a temperature meter and with the soli chip from Google. This is a chip specially designed to track the smallest movements. This chip makes it possible for the Google Nest Hub 2 to assess your sleep quality based on movements and sounds. The temperature meter also makes it possible to measure your temperature, so that the device can make an even better sleep analysis. This sleep analysis then appears on the screen of your Google Nest Hub 2 every morning. According to Google, this information will not leave the device. The data is processed and stored on the Nest Hub itself and does not go through Google’s servers. Sleep Sensing is a function that you do not have to use, you can also turn it off.
To improve sleep tracking, Google has say the algorithms improved. Improved training should improve the ability of these algorithms to detect and distinguish sound. This should, for example, ensure that any snoring from your partner is detected as being from your partner. Now it sometimes happens that the Google Nest Hub detects this in you, while you are sure that you are not the one who snored.
The Google Nest Hub 2 will soon place the sounds that do not come from you under the heading ‘Other sounds’. This will give you real proof that not you, but your partner is dreaming every night, snoring and gritting your teeth. You can expect the new update in the coming weeks.
One more year of free sleep with Google
You can use the Sleep Sensing for free until 2022, after which you have to pay for it. Earlier there was the news that payment would have to be made for the function from 2022, so Google has decided to postpone this for a year. From 2023 it will cost about ten euros per month to have your sleep tracked by the Nest Hub 2.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld.