Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) has launched Wellness – the latest solution set available as part of its NEXT platform.

Wellness has been developed in conjunction with Panasonic Corporation to improve the comfort, health and wellbeing of passengers inflight.

Panasonic’s Wellness solution, which was developed alongside the research and development teams from Panasonic Corporation in Japan, today includes Active Noise Control, Premium Seat Lighting, and Panasonic’s nanoeTMtechnology.

Active Noise Control provides passengers with a more comfortable and restful sleep aboard long-haul flights by reducing background aircraft noise, with no headphones required.

It can reduce ambient noise at the seat by up to 15dB, and is optimized for the 80-400Hz frequency range with no impact on human voices. The technology is adaptable to each seat configuration and will calibrate automatically to a passenger’s seat inflight.

Premium Seat Lighting tailors a passenger’s lighting experience to different phases of the flight, improving both their health and wellness onboard.

Specialized sleep and wake algorithms ensure passengers have the best possible rest inflight and awake refreshed and at their body’s own pace.

Lighting scheduled during meal services is optimized to improve food color saturation whilst reading lights are designed to reduce eye strain for passengers.

For the airline, a range of accent lighting highlights themes and branding in the cabin with differentiation available for First and Business class sections.

nanoe™ deodorizes the air in the cabin and around a passenger’s seating area by applying low voltage to moisture which bursts into nano-sized electrostatic atomized particles at a rate of 480 billion nm particles per second. It also neutralizes air and surface viruses, bacteria, molds, and pet-related allergens.

In addition to these Panasonic products, the company is also showcasing wellness applications developed in collaboration with select wellness experts: Detalytics, a provider of health-related AI services, is demonstrating an integrated health advisory application integrated into both PAC seat-back and passenger mobile screens, and Mimi Hearing Technologies, a leader in advanced audio enhancing algorithms, is showing integrated personalized audio capabilities.

Panasonic has secured launch customers for each feature, all of which are available on both long and short-haul flights.