BIDSleep, an app developed using the Apple Watch Series 6, aims to monitor sleep disorders — without the hassle of a sleep study.
A team of researchers developed a new sleep study app.
The app was developed using AI and an Apple Watch Series 6.
BIDSleep aims to monitor sleep disorders without a sleep study.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are turning Apple Watches into advanced sleep stage monitoring devices.
Professor Joyita Dutta and her team at the Biomedical Imaging and Data Science Lab developed BIDSleep, an app that collects data for studying sleep and could serve as an alternative to the expensive and complex equipment and protocols associated with the gold standard of sleep studies. BIDSleep uses an Apple Watch, which Dutta says the team included for its accessibility.
Dutta said she envisions that researchers will eventually use this app to monitor people with sleep disorders outside of a lab.
The study for the app was conducted with 47 adults who wore the Apple Watch Series 6 and a Dreem 2 Headband over seven nights for sleep monitoring and stage assessment.
