OT: WakeMate

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMMENT ON THE VALUE OR EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PRODUCT. JUST AN OBSERVATION ON THE TECHNOLOGY.

Check this out: http://www.wakemate.com

For $50, they make a device that analyzes your sleep patterns, transmits its data via Bluetooth to your iPhone, and then the data is transmitted wirelessly by your iPhone to your account on their server for further analysis.

All that for $50. Meanwhile, with many many hundreds of dollars invested in our equipment, every day we see political battles to get ANY data from our equipment and technical struggles to get the clunky card readers to spit the data to our own local systems over a finicky USB connection.

It's further proof that the xPAP manufacturers are shamefully under performing.

I think it is an iphone of this:

Actigraphy
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Actigraphy is a relatively non-invasive method of monitoring human rest/activity cycles. A small actigraph unit, also called an actimetry sensor,[1] is worn by a patient to measure gross motor activity. Motor activity often under test is that of the wrist, measured by an actigraph in a wrist-watch-like package. The unit continually records the movements it undergoes. The data is later read to a computer where it can be analysed.

Purpose
Sleep

Sleep actigraphs are generally watch-shaped and worn on the wrist of the non-dominant arm. They are useful for determining sleep patterns and circadian rhythms. They may be worn for weeks at a time.

Actigraphy is useful for assessing daytime sleepiness in situations where a laboratory sleep latency test is not appropriate. It is used to clinically evaluate insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorders, excessive sleepiness and restless legs syndrome. It is also used in assessing the effectiveness of pharmacologic, behavioural, phototherapeutic or chronotherapeutic treatments for such disorders.

Actigraphy has not traditionally been used in routine diagnosis of sleep disorders but is increasingly being employed in sleep clinics to replace full polysomnography. The technique is more extensively used in academic research and is being increasingly employed in new drug clinical trials where sleep quality is seen as a good indicator of quality of life.

Activity

Activity actigraphs are worn and used similar to a pedometer: around the waist, near the hip. They are useful for determining the amount of activity and possibly the number of calories burned by the wearer. They are worn for a number of days.

Movement

Movement actigraphs are generally larger and worn on the shoulder of the dominant arm. They contain a 3D actigraph as opposed to a single dimension one, and have a high sample rate and a large memory. They are used for only a few hours, and can be used to determine problems with gait and other physical impairments.

YawnGirl wrote:I think it is an iphone of this:

Actigraphy
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What jumped out at me most was how seamlessly they managed to make the data flow from Point A to Point B to Point C without any user interaction. That's such a stark contrast to the clumsy "smart" cards that we fumble with to get our data.

I don't know how accurate it is, but it sure seems like a cool idea. Let's see with a mask, PAPcap, fingertip oximeter, and the WakeMate, I'd look more like I'm going into stasis for a deep space journey than actually going to sleep!

Ha, Ha. Looks who's using it!

http://www.learnactiware.com/

Now why can't they integrate it in their machines?

I got the EasyWakeup app for my iPhone for 14.99. I'm still trying to figure it out.