Heart rate and respiration rate measurement errors need to meet standards - new national standard for smart mattresses announced.

Journalists learned today that the State Administration for Market Regulation has approved the release of the national standard for "Intelligent Mattresses," which will officially take effect on March 1, 2026. This standard sets unified criteria for the intelligence, functionality, and safety of intelligent mattress products. The standard specifies that intelligent interaction requirements should be able to achieve remote control, prompts, abnormal alarms, and voice interaction, ensuring that users can conveniently and multimodally operate products through terminals and receive alerts. From information entry, transmission synchronization to query analysis, strengthening the whole chain data management to provide the data foundation for intelligent health monitoring and services. The standard regulates the comfortable and healthy performance requirements of products, requiring products to have the ability to self-adjust or customize personalized adjustments. Products with operation devices should not exceed a running speed of 50 mm/s to enhance comfort. For health monitoring functions, it is specified that the error of heart rate measurement should not exceed 5 times/minute, and the error of respiration rate should not exceed 5 times/minute, providing accurate references for user health management. For products that explicitly claim to have mite- suppressing and antibacterial functions, it is required that the mite-suppression rate must be above 60%, and the antibacterial rate must be above 90%, effectively protecting consumer rights. Strict restrictions on product noise require that the noise under working conditions does not exceed 55 decibels, and the noise in sleep mode must be below 30 decibels, maximizing the reduction of equipment operation interference with sleep and ensuring sleep quality for users. The standard sets a safety risk defense line that products must meet basic requirements such as electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, information security, and flame retardant performance. Products with heating functions must not cause skin burns or thermal shock risks to users, eliminating risks such as electrical leakage, electromagnetic interference, data leakage, and fire hazards.