Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology

Massimiliano de Zambotti; Nicola Cellini; Luca Menghini; Michela Sarlo; Fiona C Baker

doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2019.11.003

Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology

Sleep Med Clin. 2020 Mar;15(1):1-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2019.11.003. Epub 2020 Jan 3.

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Massimiliano de Zambotti¹, Nicola Cellini², Luca Menghini³, Michela Sarlo⁴, Fiona C Baker⁵

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¹ Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 8 - 35131 Padua, Italy; Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Via Ugo Bassi 58/B - 35121 Padua, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Via Giuseppe Orus, 2, 35131 Padua, Italy; Human Inspired Technology Center, University of Padua, Via Luzzatti, 4 - 35121 Padua, Italy.
³ Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 8 - 35131 Padua, Italy.
⁴ Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 8 - 35131 Padua, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Via Giuseppe Orus, 2, 35131 Padua, Italy.
⁵ Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Abstract

Sleep is crucial for the proper functioning of bodily systems and for cognitive and emotional processing. Evidence indicates that sleep is vital for health, well-being, mood, and performance. Consumer sleep technologies (CSTs), such as multisensory wearable devices, have brought attention to sleep and there is growing interest in using CSTs in research and clinical applications. This article reviews how CSTs can process information about sleep, physiology, and environment. The growing number of sensors in wearable devices and the meaning of the data collected are reviewed. CSTs have the potential to provide opportunities to measure sleep and sleep-related physiology on a large scale.

Keywords: Consumer sleep technology; Health; Performance; Sensors; Wearables.

Sensors Capabilities, Performance, and Use of Consumer Sleep Technology

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