Monitoring sleep health via heart Rate
The heart rate of individuals with sleep apnea alternates between fast and slow rhythms during sleep.". Due to the collapse of the airway, leading to interrupted breathing, the patient's heart rate can drop to as low as 30 to 50 beats per minute and abruptly rise to 90 to 120 beats per minute. The more they sleep, the more fatigued they become.
Analyzing sleep structure through heart rate provides a more accurate statistics compared to common sleep apps that rely on motion detection as their basis for analysis. Hospital sleep testing typically involve monitoring physiological signals such as brainwaves, eye movement, muscle activity, breathing, and blood oxygen levels. This often requires connecting numerous wires. In contrast with the complicated and potentially disruptive process, heart rate analysis aligns better with the needs of patients, offering a more user-friendly alternative.
Lin En-Ping, CEO of Largan Precision, explained that their new product can monitor heart rate and sleep patterns, analyzing sleep quality, and uploading data to the cloud. Largan Precision will be responsible for chip design and product manufacturing, with plans to establish a medical cloud in the future.