This technology is offering a completely new way to monitor sleep

This technology is offering a completely new way to monitor sleep

MIT has developed a wireless way to monitor an individual's sleep, using reflected radio signals from a small mounted device.

The technology has the potential to act as a medical device, as well as a personal one, helping those with Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, or bedsores.

It can monitor someone's sleep and inform them which positions help them to be well rested.



MIT researchers have developed a wireless, private way to monitor a person's sleep postures “” whether snoozing on their back, stomach, or sides “” using reflected radio signals from a small device mounted on a bedroom wall.

The device, called BodyCompass, is the first home-ready, radio-frequency-based system to provide accurate sleep data without cameras or sensors attached to the body, according to Shichao Yue, who will introduce the