Why sleep monitoring?
Having a good sleep is very important for our health especially in today’s busy lifestyle, some of us can manage the hours of sleep they can get per night but there are still a lot of people can not achieve that. Having a usual unhealthy sleep pattern will lead to causing health problems. So, by having the ability to monitor our sleep this will help us to take care of our health andavoid any sleeping disorder which will put our life’s in risk.
What is sleep monitoring?
Sleep monitoring refers to the process of monitoring a person throughout the night in order to come up with some qualitative sleep measures. The quality metrics help convey an objective view of the quality of one’s sleep and help discover trends over time. Relevant metrics can be the length of a sleep period, number of awakenings, length of restless sleep periods and the time needed to fall asleep. These metrics can even lead to a rather comprehensive hypnogram which divides the duration of sleep intodifferent sleep stages. These stages are mainly divided into two major groups: REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and NREM (non-REM). NREM is further divided into Wake, Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3. While Stage 1 and Stage 2 are collectively known as Light Sleep, Stage 3 is referred to as Deep Sleep.What is sleep monitoring? NewIt is the process of tracking a person sleep during his sleep via using Our digital radar inorder to collect our needed data and then apply a very special sleeping algorithm that is purely made by Transrobotics team to discover the difference in a person sleeping pattern throughout the night. Last but not least we will end up generating our metrics based on the sleeping data that will help to understand the differences of sleeping stages to that person.
How do we do sleep monitoring?
The present sleep stage algorithm is primarily based on two metrics: RPM (Respiration per minute) and the movement metric read by the TransRobotics sensor module. The RPM rate and variability are used to identify REM sleep, while the movement metric is used to distinguish among Deep Sleep, Light Sleep and Wake stages. The RPM and the movement metrics are averaged and smoothed on multiple levels, and then compared with threshold values which are either predefined or calculated on the fly. Thedata can later identify sleep stages and be used as a basis for a sleep monitor to identify sleep quantity and quality.
Potential sleep monitoring applications
With an increased focus on self and at-home health diagnosis, TransRobotics sleep monitoring solution can be integrated into numerous commercial applications.
Smart alarm clock
Non-contact real time monitoring
Baby monitoring
Elderly sleep tracking
Smart alarm clock
Our sleep monitoring technology can be integrated in a consumer smart alarm clock that tracks respiration and movement
throughout the night.
This bedside sleep monitor can also be used as a sleep cycle alarm clock, to gently wake up the user during the most
optimal sleep stage, where he/she can feel most refreshed upon wake-up time.
Non-contact real time monitoring
In a hospital setting, multiple rooms can be equipped with sensors that would monitor patients’ respiration and movement
throughout the night and output data directly to a single monitor.
Nurses can then have a convenient overview of who is awake or sleeping without having to personally check on each
patient. This monitoring system can contribute to easier and simplified night shifts.
Baby monitoring
A baby monitoring sensor installed in close proximity to the crib can also be an example of a sleep monitoring
consumer application. The sensor can provide parents with accurate real-time information on sleep/awake periods of
their babies and provide factual metrics of their sleep quantity over time.
Knowing that infants need anywhere between 12 and 15 hours of daily sleep, the sensor can help parents be aware of
their baby sleep issues.
Elderly sleep tracking
With seniors living longer at home, a bed or ceiling-mounted sensor providing
real-time monitoring, can help families monitor their loved ones from a remote
location and provide care when needed.
A non-contact sleep tracking device would track respiration and movement
throughout the night and provide factual metrics on the quantity and quality of
the elderly’s sleep.