A pillowcase that tracks sleep

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Researchers led by Columbia Engineering's Xia Zhou developed PillowSense, a fabric-based system designed to monitor sleep through contact with the sleeper's neck. Its soft sensors measure heart rate, breathing, movement, and sleep posture.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Columbia Engineering Associate Professor Xia Zhou has developed PillowSense, a fabric-based sleep-monitoring system. The novel system uses soft sensors to measure heart rate, breathing rate, body movement and sleep posture through natural contact with the sleeper's neck.