Textiles with integrated sleep-monitoring sensors

Anne Schwarz-Pfeiffer Melanie Hoerr, Viktorija Mecnika  

We spend almost a third of our life sleeping. Our overnight null is essential for good health and well-being. Over the past 80 years new perceptions into the basics of sleep and its influence on our health have been attained — and the understanding of the relationship between sleep disorders and illnesses constantly grows. 

The World Health Organisation describes the structure of sleep as follows  

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The various sleep stages are analysed in specialised sleep laboratories with the help of polysomnography (PSG), which includes electroencephalography (EEG brain waves), electro-optigraphy (EOG eye movement), electromyography (EMG muscle activity), and electrocardiography (ECG heart rhythm) measurements (Sarny et al., 2014). 

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Textiles with integrated sleep-monitoring sensors... 

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