Student in Dubai creates pillow that helps alert people with hearing impairment while asleep

Student in Dubai creates pillow that helps alert people with hearing impairment while asleep

Dubai: A student with hearing impairment, during his Dubai university course, has developed a prototype smart pillow that can alert people with hearing impairment about emergencies while they are asleep. American graduate JayShaud Potter, while pursuing his master's degree in City Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dubai, linked door bells, smoke alarms and security systems to a SmartPillow that can also alert a person about any emergency calls on the smartphone while he or she is asleep. The phone can be used to provide signals to the pillow, such as signals related to emergency alarms or urgent phone calls from select sources. Transmission between the pillow and the phone or between the pillow and other security systems or devices can use a standard radio frequency wireless protocol. Potter, 24, had come to Dubai for his master's degree and is now back in the United States to obtain his MBA degree from RIT in New York. Drawing on his own experience of living with deafness, he used the Internet of Things (IoT) to link alarms with alternative sensory alerts, such as haptic feedback or lights, through SmartPillow. Born deaf, Potter often struggled with the day-to-day challenges of communication. "When