APPLICATIONS
Transforming Sleep Diagnostics Across Clinical Scenarios
SleepWise brings medical-grade sleep analysis out of the laboratory and into real-world clinical and home environments. By eliminating the need for hardware and consumables, it expands access to diagnostic testing, improves patient adherence, and enables multi-night assessments that reflect natural sleep conditions.
Its validated technology supports a wide range of medical use cases — from paediatric sleep evaluation to adult obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) screening, neurological sleep disorders, and insomnia monitoring.
1. Paediatric Sleep Medicine
SleepWise is particularly suited for children, where conventional polygraphy and polysomnography are often difficult or poorly tolerated. The system operates silently and without physical contact, allowing recordings in familiar environments such as the child’s own bedroom.
This enables:
- Natural sleep without cables, belts, or nasal cannulas
- Objective, repeatable assessment of breathing patterns and nocturnal movements
- Early detection of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and snoring-related disturbances
- Longitudinal monitoring during growth or treatment adjustments
Paediatric studies have confirmed that SleepWise produces high-quality traces, with event detection comparable to hospital-based tests, while ensuring full comfort for both children and parents.
2. Adult Sleep Apnea Diagnosis
In adults, SleepWise serves as a reliable tool for diagnosing obstructive and central sleep apnea in both clinical and home settings. It captures motion and respiratory effort signals equivalent to thoraco-abdominal belts, providing data suitable for apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) calculation and event classification.
Clinicians benefit from:
- Simplified logistics (no device preparation or calibration)
- High patient adherence, even in home studies
- Reduced waiting times for diagnostic evaluation
- Ability to perform multi-night recordings to improve diagnostic confidence
3. Neurological Sleep Disorders
Beyond respiratory analysis, SleepWise technology is being extended to identify and quantify neurological and motor-related sleep disturbances through advanced motion analysis and AI modeling. The platform is being developed to detect:
- Periodic Limb Movements (PLM)
- Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) patterns
- Nocturnal myoclonus and myoclonic jerks
- REM Behavior Disorder (RBD) and other parasomnias
Preliminary algorithmic studies already demonstrate the feasibility of differentiating rhythmic limb activity and isolated micro-movements from respiratory motion, paving the way for new diagnostic modules. These capabilities will expand SleepWise from a respiratory diagnostic tool to a comprehensive neurophysiological analysis platform for sleep medicine.
4. Insomnia and Sleep Quality Monitoring
SleepWise also offers new opportunities in the assessment and management of insomnia. Through multi-night recordings and behavioral pattern analysis, the system can:
- Automatically compile sleep diaries, including latency, awakenings, and sleep efficiency
- Objectively track sleep fragmentation and total sleep time
- Support behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) with quantitative feedback over short- and medium-term follow-up
- Help clinicians assess treatment efficacy and lifestyle impact
By combining physiological traces and behavioral insights, SleepWise supports a more holistic approach to sleep health — one that goes beyond respiration to capture the entire sleep experience.
5. Home-Based and Telemedicine Applications
Because SleepWise only requires a smartphone, it seamlessly integrates into telemedicine workflows. Patients can perform recordings at home, and physicians can review traces remotely through the SleepWise medical platform.
This approach supports:
- Decentralized sleep diagnostics
- Remote pre-screening and post-treatment follow-up
- Integration with electronic health records (EHR)
- Expansion of diagnostic capacity without additional staff or equipment
Multi-night analysis also allows clinicians to observe night-to-night variability, improving the accuracy of treatment decisions and long-term management.
6. Research and Validation Studies
SleepWise offers a powerful framework for clinical research in sleep physiology, respiratory medicine, and neurophysiology. The system’s metadata-based architecture enables anonymized, scalable data collection and multi-center collaboration.
Research institutions can use SleepWise to:
- Collect large, standardized datasets
- Study variability in respiratory and neurological sleep patterns
- Develop and validate new AI-based diagnostic metrics
- Integrate additional sensors or data streams (SpO₂, sound, movement, HRV)
7. Longitudinal Monitoring and Follow-up
SleepWise allows continuous observation of respiratory and movement patterns over time, making it ideal for follow-up after therapeutic interventions such as:
- CPAP initiation or titration
- Adenoidectomy or tonsillectomy in children
- Weight-loss or positional therapy in adults
- Behavioral and pharmacological management of insomnia or RLS
This longitudinal capability provides objective evidence of treatment effectiveness and supports precision medicine approaches in sleep care.
Key Clinical Benefits
| Feature | Clinical Advantage |
|---|---|
| Contactless acquisition | Improved patient comfort and adherence |
| Multi-night studies | Increased diagnostic confidence |
| Neurological analysis | Early detection of movement-related disorders |
| Sleep diary automation | Objective behavioral monitoring for insomnia |
| Physician control | Maintains medical responsibility and interpretation |
| Validated accuracy | Comparable to gold-standard polygraphy |