DeRUCCI Sleep Cube: The "Minimalist" and "Intelligent" Revolution in the Sleep Ecosystem

The wave of AIoT is reshaping the landscape of human life at an unprecedented speed, and the boundaries and connotations of "home" are being continuously redefined.

When you walk to your doorstep under the scorching summer sun, there's no need to rummage for keys. Just gently touch the fingerprint recognition area with your fingertip, and the door will open automatically. Cool air spreads indoors, gentle and soothing melodies flow from the living - room speakers, and the lights gradually turn on. Behind all these comfortable experiences is the collaborative response between cloud commands and terminal perception. Thus, the prototype of whole - house intelligence takes shape.

From the popularization of single smart home appliances to the initial connection of whole - house intelligence, the smart home industry has evolved rapidly in just a few years. Statistics show that the market scale of China's smart home has approached 700 billion yuan. However, only a small number of families have truly achieved whole - house intelligent integration. Most are still at the stage of independent or limited connection of devices such as smart refrigerators, air conditioners, and lights.

However, in the key scenario of smart sleep, the market is still in its infancy. Take the smart bed as an example. Its domestic penetration rate is less than 1%, far lower than 14% in the United States. It is exactly the crucial piece to complete the "puzzle" of the whole - house smart ecosystem.

Facing a potential market of over 500 billion yuan, DeRUCCI, a leader in the healthy sleep field, took the lead. On September 26th, at the Shenzhen HarmonyOS Connect Partners Summit, DeRUCCI launched the "Sleep Cube" smart sleep products in partnership with Huawei HarmonyOS, initiating a revolution in the smart sleep ecosystem centered on "active care" and "seamless interconnection".

The launch event site of Sleep Cube

A new entry point from single products to the ecosystem

The sleep market is a blue ocean.

According to data from iiMedia Research, in 2024, the market scale of China's sleep economy exceeded 530 billion yuan, and it is expected to grow to about 650 billion yuan by 2027. In this huge market, "smart sleep" driven by technologies such as AIoT and biosensing has become the core focus of industry competition due to its ability to innovate traditional sleep scenarios.

Behind the seemingly booming development of the industry, problems such as scattered product functions and poor device compatibility seriously restrict the formation of the "sleep ecosystem". For example, different brands use their own technical protocols and data interfaces, leaving consumers in the embarrassing situation of "unable to connect to the network and the data not being accessible", which greatly affects the user experience. Or, single products such as smart mattresses are isolated from each other and cannot form a linkage with other indoor devices.

Of course, the most fundamental issue is that the so - called "intelligence" is only superficial. The intelligence of most sleep products on the market still stays at the level of "passive response". Users need to trigger operations through APPs or voice commands. These products neither deeply understand the potential needs of users during sleep nor solve the key problem of "how to sleep healthily", showing an obvious gap from the "active service" that consumers expect. Against this background, DeRUCCI, which drives the upgrade of smart sleep with "algorithm + ecosystem", tries to break the current dilemma.

Take the Sleep Cube for example. It has achieved an intelligent leap from "perception" to "intervention". For instance, regarding the common snoring problem during sleep, the Sleep Cube provides a solution of "precise recognition + gentle intervention".

When the system recognizes snoring, the mattress will slowly lift the head of the bed to 15 degrees at a rate of one degree per second to relieve snoring by adjusting the sleeping position. If no snoring is detected within 30 minutes, the mattress will return to its original position at the same gentle speed. The whole process is almost imperceptible, and the accuracy rate of snoring recognition is as high as 80%, and can reach up to 90%. In the future, DeRUCCI will optimize it to minimize the interference with others' deep sleep.

Smart experience of Sleep Cube

Beyond improving sleep, relying on the sleep detector and sensors with Class II medical device certificates, the Sleep Cube can capture real - time indicators such as heart rate, breathing, and body movement, and generate a sleep report that meets the industry's gold standard in combination with algorithms. In the future, the Sleep Cube will also use big - data technology to screen and analyze chronic diseases and give warnings for early diseases, upgrading the smart bed from a household item to the infrastructure for home health monitoring.

In terms of hardware interaction design, the Sleep Cube has also been innovated. In the past, the ways to start smart sleep mainly focused on APPs, voice, and remote controls. For the Sleep Cube, on the basis of the original three operation methods, DeRUCCI has pioneered the "tap - to - start" method, allowing consumers to achieve "seamless intelligence" without being restricted by age, mental state, time, or location, which interprets DeRUCCI's concept of "making products adapt to people".

The smooth operation of all smart functions depends on the support of an efficient "network nerve". The Sleep Cube is directly connected to Huawei HarmonyOS's unique IOT connection technology - NearLink. The traditional IoT device pairing usually takes about 3 seconds, while NearLink shortens this time to less than one - tenth. The millisecond - level response speed takes consumers' smart experience to a new level.

Whether it's the algorithm for snoring prevention, medical - grade health monitoring, or the interactive innovation of "tap - to - start", they are all tools in essence. The real core value of the Sleep Cube is to use "smart" technology to turn the bedroom into a smart living space that is "more user - friendly, more convenient, and more comfortable", and to become a "sleep partner" that perceives needs and provides active services, ultimately returning to the essence of people - centered smart sleep.

The cross - border logic of the technology foundation and ecosystem synergy

After more than two decades of in - depth development in the industry, DeRUCCI has long become a well - deserved benchmark enterprise in the domestic mid - to - high - end healthy sleep field. Even in the context of the overall pressure on the soft furniture industry, DeRUCCI's revenue reached 5.603 billion yuan last year, showing a rare increase in the industry. With stable profitability and forward - looking AI ecosystem layout, DeRUCCI still demonstrates the courage and strength of an industry "leader".

Strong scientific research and innovation capabilities and continuous investment are the keys for DeRUCCI to maintain its leading position in the industry. In 2024, DeRUCCI's R & D investment reached 211 million yuan, a year - on - year increase of 13.5%. The professional R & D team has more than 300 people, with 48 new patents added throughout the year, and it participated in formulating 60 industry standards. As of now, DeRUCCI has accumulated more than 1,800 patents and copyrights, which not only demonstrates its strong scientific research and innovation strength but also lays a solid foundation for its subsequent construction of a smart sleep ecosystem.

The application of intelligence is not only in products but also in the production process. As early as 2015, DeRUCCI launched the construction of a digital intelligent manufacturing factory for Industry 4.0, opening the door to the digital transformation of the industry's production. As a result, the production efficiency of DeRUCCI's factory has increased by about 40%, which in turn provides strong support for product intelligence.

This strong strength is exactly the core reason for Huawei to choose to cooperate with DeRUCCI.

For DeRUCCI, in the process of accelerating the in - depth upgrade of products to AI, technological empowerment and ecosystem collaboration have become the key breakthrough points. Huawei, which ranks at the top of the industry in these two aspects, precisely meets DeRUCCI's development needs and has the ability to inject key impetus into DeRUCCI's intelligent transformation.

DeRUCCI is already familiar with Huawei's role as a technology partner, and its "NearLink" has been integrated into DeRUCCI's "DNA". More importantly, there is the "ecosystem entry point". One is the channel ecosystem. Through Huawei's online and offline smart life experience stores on platforms such as Tmall and JD.com, the Sleep Cube, a unique bedding product, can accurately reach domestic and international mid - to - high - end user groups. The other is the space ecosystem. After joining HarmonyOS Preferred, DeRUCCI's Sleep Cube system can seamlessly interact with other devices in the HarmonyOS system, creating a truly "user - understanding" sleep scenario.

This cooperation between "high - end manufacturing" and a "technology platform" is actually inevitable. In the future, in DeRUCCI's continuous breakthrough explorations in the smart sleep ecosystem, Huawei will be the partner that can provide the best support. For Huawei, if it wants to fill the gap in the "sleep scenario" of the smart home ecosystem, DeRUCCI, the industry leader, is undoubtedly the best choice. It can be said that their cooperation provides a new direction for the "scenario - based implementation" of whole - house intelligence in the entire home furnishing industry.

The launch event site of Sleep Cube

Before this cooperation with Huawei, DeRUCCI had already carried out cross - border practices in expanding its healthy sleep ecosystem. In the first half of this year, DeRUCCI carried out in - depth cooperation with Himalaya, upgrading the "DeRUCCI Good Night Radio" with an AI sound field engine. Through content such as sleep knowledge, ancient AI poetry therapy, and healing white noise, it creates an "auditory sleep - aiding barrier" for consumers, enabling the public to have better sleep.

In the future, DeRUCCI's cross - border journey may continue.

The new business landscape of the 100 - billion - yuan track

The continuous expansion of the sleep economy has laid a solid market foundation for the smart bed track.

In the sleep economy market worth over 500 billion yuan, the scale of bedding products alone will reach 200 billion yuan. Among them, smart beds will also move from being a niche product to a mainstream consumer item. In the future, its share in the bedding market may reach 50%, and its market scale is expected to exceed 120 billion yuan by 2027, entering the "100 - billion - yuan track".

The driving force for expansion mainly comes from two aspects. Firstly, consumer demand is continuously being released. According to statistics, 62% of consumers aged 25 - 45 said that "they are willing to pay to improve sleep quality". Among them, the attention to smart beds (including smart mattresses) has increased from 28% to 57% last year, making it the fastest - growing sub - category among sleep health products. Secondly, there is the dual empowerment of policies and technologies. In recent years, policies such as the "Healthy China 2030" Plan Outline have emphasized directions such as "sleep health and intelligent upgrade of consumer goods". The increasing maturity of sensors and AI algorithms has also promoted the upgrade of smart beds from basic functions to health monitoring, further opening up the market space.

With the rapid development of the market and consumers' longing for a "whole - house scenario - based experience", the business model of the smart bed industry has also undergone a fundamental change: from simply selling hardware to a dual - driven model of "healthy sleep services + whole - house smart solutions". The smart bed has thus become the smart hub connecting "people, sleep environment, and health data", and will play a more central role in reshaping the future of the industry in the smart home ecosystem.

Now, DeRUCCI, the "pioneer" in the industry, is accelerating the expansion of its ecosystem with the Sleep Cube as the core entry point.

It may provide corresponding recipes, exercise suggestions, etc. through the APP platform according to consumers' sleep quality, connecting the complete link from sleep data to health management to life services.

Taking this cooperation with Huawei HarmonyOS as an opportunity, DeRUCCI will consider connecting more HarmonyOS ecosystem devices in the future, allowing consumers to not only experience the intelligence of the mattress but also the smartness of the entire bedroom space system including curtains, temperature, and humidity at any time, turning sleep from a specific action into an ultimate spiritual enjoyment.

In addition, it will also extend vertically. For example, it may cooperate with universities, physical examination institutions, and hospitals to establish "sleep health records" for users and provide full - process services from monitoring to intervention; or jointly tackle medical technology problems in smart sleep, contributing to the development of the healthy sleep industry.

Starting from and focusing on users' sleep needs, DeRUCCI not only redefines the deep connotation of "sleeping well" but also writes a crucial chapter in the future development of smart home.