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 system in a presentation at the UbiComp 2020 conference on September 15.
The PhD student has used wireless sensing to study sleep stages and insomnia for several years. [Read more…] about Monitoring sleep positions for a healthy rest