TY - GEN
T1 - A Sensing Platform to Monitor Sleep Efficiency
AU - Crivello, Antonino
AU - La Rosa, Davide
AU - Wilhelm, Elisabeth
AU - Palumbo, Filippo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Sleep plays a fundamental role in the human life. Sleep research is mainly focused on the understanding of the sleep patterns, stages and duration. An accurate sleep monitoring can detect early signs of sleep deprivation and insomnia consequentially implementing mechanisms for preventing and overcoming these problems. Recently, sleep monitoring has been achieved using wearable technologies, able to analyse also the body movements, but old people can encounter some difficulties in using and maintaining these devices. In this paper, we propose an unobtrusive sensing platform able to analyze body movements, infer sleep duration and awakenings occurred along the night, and evaluating the sleep efficiency index. To prove the feasibility of the suggested method we did a pilot trial in which several healthy users have been involved. The sensors were installed within the bed and, on each day, each user was administered with the Groningen Sleep Quality Scale questionnaire to evaluate the user’s perceived sleep quality. Finally, we show potential correlation between a perceived evaluation with an objective index as the sleep efficiency.
AB - Sleep plays a fundamental role in the human life. Sleep research is mainly focused on the understanding of the sleep patterns, stages and duration. An accurate sleep monitoring can detect early signs of sleep deprivation and insomnia consequentially implementing mechanisms for preventing and overcoming these problems. Recently, sleep monitoring has been achieved using wearable technologies, able to analyse also the body movements, but old people can encounter some difficulties in using and maintaining these devices. In this paper, we propose an unobtrusive sensing platform able to analyze body movements, infer sleep duration and awakenings occurred along the night, and evaluating the sleep efficiency index. To prove the feasibility of the suggested method we did a pilot trial in which several healthy users have been involved. The sensors were installed within the bed and, on each day, each user was administered with the Groningen Sleep Quality Scale questionnaire to evaluate the user’s perceived sleep quality. Finally, we show potential correlation between a perceived evaluation with an objective index as the sleep efficiency.
KW - Sleep monitoring
KW - Sleep quality
KW - Unobtrusive systems
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_23
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85135837962
SN - 9783031088377
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 335
EP - 345
BT - Ambient Assisted Living - Italian Forum 2020
A2 - Bettelli, Alice
A2 - Monteriù, Andrea
A2 - Gamberini, Luciano
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 11th Italian Forum on Ambient Assisted Living, ForItAAL 2020
Y2 - 1 December 2020 through 1 December 2020
ER -