Category: Sleep Applications

With the accelerated pace of life and increased pressure in life, sleep problems are bothering more and more people.

Plus1 launched a non-wearable smart sleep monitoring belt, which can collect sleep information all night in multiple dimensions, including heart rate, breathing rate, turning over, getting out of bed, etc. Through sleep quality analysis, help you improve sleep quality and improve healthy living standards.

Plus1 smart sleep monitoring belt can monitor real-time heart rate and breathing rate, record the duration of falling asleep, sleep time, and the number of getting out of bed, and monitor abnormal heartbeat and breathing. Through sleep duration, sleep time, times of turning over and getting out of bed, abnormal breathing events, abnormal heart rate events and other index parameters, a comprehensive sleep quality score is provided, from subjective judgment of sleep to accurate quantification of sleep index parameters.

Advantages of smart sleep monitoring belt:

1. Non-wearable design, the monitoring belt is thin enough, the existence of the monitoring belt will not be detected from the touch during use, and accurate sleep data can be obtained without changing our sleeping habits;

2. The accuracy is high enough. During use, the smart sleep monitoring belt is compared with a certain brand, and the data is very close to that of a certain brand, but the data is more abundant;

3. Easy to use, whether it is the smart sleep monitoring belt itself or the use of the applet is very convenient;

4. As long as the sleep monitoring starts, when you exit the applet and turn off the Bluetooth of the mobile phone, the smart sleep monitoring belt will also maintain the monitoring state and save the data, which can make the mobile phone more power-saving and let us have one less radiation source;

5. Multi-functional and practical, it not only satisfies most sleep monitoring equipment for checking heart rate, breathing rate, turning over and getting out of bed, etc., but also realizes remote viewing and emergency call message push functions, so that people who care about you can rest assured.

Plus1Health‘s intelligent sleep monitoring belt uses the mobile Internet technology and intelligent hardware to monitor the quality of human sleep in the form of data feedback through human respiratory and metabolic sensing, helping users to pay attention to and improve their sleep quality.

The combination of nursing services and medical services is the main direction with the development of the elderly care industry. The elderly care service industry will develop in the direction of branding, large-scale and independent development, and the level of specialization and delicacy of elderly care services will be further improved. Smart old-age care is the top priority in the development of old-age service models. It will cover a variety of forms about old-age care, form a smart and healthy old-age care ecosystem, and help old-age resources achieve effective docking and optimal allocation.

Smart health care uses the new generation of information technology products such as IoT, cloud computing, big data, and intelligent hardware to realize the effective connection and optimal configuration of individuals, families, communities, institutions and health care resources, and promote the intelligent upgrade of health care services. Improve the quality and efficiency of health care services.

With the continuous breakthroughs in information technologies such as big data, IoT and intelligent sensing, and the continuous advancement of smart city construction, wisdom, health, and elderly care have become an inevitable trend in the development of the global elderly care market.

The low-power, miniaturized intelligent sensing technology of intelligent health care terminal, indoor and outdoor high-precision positioning technology, large-capacity, miniaturized energy supply technology, low-power, high-performance microprocessor and lightweight operating system, breakthroughs are suitable for the health and physiological detection and monitoring technology of the health management terminal promotes the development of intelligent analysis technologies such as real-time analysis of health status and trend analysis of health big data.

With the popularity of the Internet today, diagnosis and services will break through the original geographical restrictions, and pension resources will be more even. Health management and preliminary diagnosis will be home-based, and individuals, families, and institutions can achieve more efficient distribution and connection.

Since 2012, China has begun to promote the construction of “smart cities”. The exploration and development of urban intelligent management network technology has realized the technicalization and informatization of various service functions in cities, especially large and medium-sized cities, which have basically achieved full network coverage. This provides objective conditions for the development of smart old-age care.

With the deepening of aging and social development, the traditional pension model cannot fully adapt to the current increasingly changing pension needs, and it has become a trend to seek new multi-complex governance methods to solve the multi-level needs of the elderly.

Plus1Health can provide smart health care terminal equipment, smart care platform systems and solutions for the smart care model that combines medical care. The integrated medical and elderly care system uses advanced information technologies such as IoT,the Internet, mobile Internet technology, intelligent calling, cloud technology, and GPS positioning technology to create a smart elderly care service model of “system + service + elderly + terminal”. The combination of nourishment may become a trend in future development, and the future can be expected!

In recent years, the intelligent process of pensions has been changing with each passing day, and almost every pension enterprise is undergoing transformation. Times are changing and technology is changing. In other fields and industries, intelligent applications have been relatively complete. However, in the pension industry, especially the traditional pension model, it is still in the basic operation stage, and some are even manually registering the corresponding data information.

China’s elderly population has reached more than 200 million, and such a large user group (90% of the home-based elderly) cannot achieve scale without the support of intelligent power. Elderly care is a labor-intensive industry that requires a lot of human input. The high labor cost will increase the labor cost of enterprises. Therefore, the intelligent road of enterprises is the only way to save manpower, optimize processes and improve efficiency.

There are also many types of smart home-based elderly care. There are active needs and passive acceptance; there are government purchases, and there are commercial services; Technical means to provide convenient, efficient and safe elderly care services for home-based elderly care users.

The essence of the smart home care model is big data, artificial intelligence, precise push, medical and nursing integration, health management, and a centralized form of all modern marketing. Therefore, it is not the government, enterprises, or organizations that can do it independently. Multi-party cooperation is needed to jointly deepen research, and to strive to improve the entire pension industry and make it healthy and sound development.

At present, many elderly care institutions or government associations in China are committed to the creation of smart home care platforms. Plus1Health has a smart home care platform and solutions (the elderly care institutions need to build their own nursing teams and self-built home care services center), dedicated to providing one-stop, three-dimensional and all-round quality elderly care services for the elderly in China. Products cover information service platforms, IoT care terminals, etc. Smart home care cannot be stopped, and it must be getting smarter. Only when the grafted technology and equipment are applied in the process of home care services and the formation of industry standardization can the brand drainage of this industry be finally realized.

Build an ecosystem of elderly care cloud platform with wisdom, integrate health management, equipment management, health reporting, alarm function, telemedicine,integrating management, operation and service. Provide high-tech intelligent means for nursing homes, communities, real estate, achieve convenient and fast cost-effective services and management; provide a convenient and intelligent living environment for the elderly, and provide family members with complete and assured elderly health data, suitable for all elderly care Institutions, communities, street offices, real estate and other units.

The system mainly includes: health monitoring, care service, outgoing monitoring, daily information, remote monitoring, etc. It is mainly divided into smart nursing home mode, smart community nursing mode and intelligent home nursing mode. Real-time monitoring of the elderly’s health, entertainment and care, and timely push the elderly’s physical indicators, mental status and service records to their children. Let children know about the services and life that their parents enjoy in the community.

The platform relies on cloud computing, big data and other high-tech support to establish a humanized pension platform with powerful functions and convenient operation. The platform adopts the modular idea for business architecture. Users can select a single module for any combination and combination according to their own business needs, and support customized development at the same time.

The intelligent elderly care health system monitors the heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and other important indicators of human health of the elderly, and issues warnings when abnormal, and supports the understanding of the elderly’s health information on the mobile phone. This information can be transmitted to community hospitals and intelligent medical systems through community networks, and hospital computer systems can monitor patients’ health indicators. When there is an emergency request, press the call button, and the location information of the caller will be transmitted to the community hospital and property monitoring in time, and the medical staff will be notified to help or give first aid.

The system supports docking with third-party systems such as smart devices, properties, communities, nursing homes and other third-party systems for system integration, unified platform management, reducing user coordination between multiple systems, bringing huge workload input, reducing unnecessary human input, reducing organization operating costs, and further analysis of the accessed data to bring valuable data support for decision-making.

Plus1Health can provide smart health care terminal equipment, smart care platform systems and solutions for smart community care. Under the existing pension model, the advanced IoT technology is used to realize the real smart pension and create a smart, safe and efficient smart community.

1. Diversified supply of elderly care services

As far as the precise supply of elderly care services is concerned, “Internet +” can improve the enthusiasm of social entities to participate in elderly care services by optimizing the allocation of resources. In the current elderly care service system, the elderly care infrastructure is basically invested and constructed by the government, but the government is not the only main body that builds elderly care facilities. Some units will also invest in the construction of some elderly care service facilities up.

Under the circumstance that the elderly have mobile phones, targeted pushes are carried out, and the elderly can also find these facilities during normal searches, which not only increases the selection opportunities of the elderly, but also brings returns to related enterprises. In this way, the participation of enterprises and social organizations in the construction of old-age service facilities is increased, and smart devices suitable for the elderly can be developed to create more convenient services for the elderly.

2. Digitalization of pension service information

In the context of the “Internet +” era, the emergence of big data has promoted the reform of new pension methods. Big data brings convenience to community home care work, and also brings good news to the elderly living at home with inconvenience.

With the help of big data, it is possible to establish a complete information platform for home-based elderly care, integrate effective social resources, and realize the professionalization of home-based elderly care. The elderly can enjoy convenient door-to-door services at home through a phone call or an instruction from the Internet. The social management and supervision of the elderly are completely acceptable to the elderly.

Through the establishment of an elderly service information platform, various physical indicators and data of the elderly can be collected and analyzed, the service needs of the elderly can be obtained in a timely manner, and services can be provided regularly and proactively for the elderly assessment and supervision.

With the continuous growth of relevant information and data, the processing of massive elderly care service data through Internet technology can not only improve management efficiency, save human resources, and reduce maintenance costs.

The old cost can also use its scale effect to save the government and society’s pension service expenditure.

3. Intelligent elderly care services

With the widespread use of the Internet in elderly care services, many network information technology methods have also been adopted in the process of community home-based elderly care services, and intelligent and high-tech elderly care service methods provide a full range of services for the elderly.

The intelligent old-age care method applies Internet technology, wireless transmission technology, remote monitoring technology,and daily old-age care services, so that the daily life of the elderly is in a remote monitoring state all day long.

The introduction of “Internet +” can use big data to mine the living habits of the elderly, so as to provide more intelligent, personalized and professional online and offline elderly care services for the elderly.

Smart community to smart community for the aged is just a matter of smooth sailing, so its development prospects are very considerable. On the other hand, with the advancement of Internet technology, elderly care services can form an effective closed loop. It can be said that smart community elderly care is a major trend in the future, a pandemic.

“Health comes from sleep” is a new view put forward by medical researchers based on the latest results of sleep research in recent years. Long-term lack of sleep and insomnia can cause a series of damage to the body, including decreased thinking ability, decreased vigilance and judgment, low immune function, and endocrine disorders. Sleep has six main functions.

1. Eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength

Sleep is the main way to eliminate physical fatigue. Because the gastrointestinal tract and its related organs are in a state of rest during sleep. During sleep, body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure drop, breathing slows, and the body’s basal metabolic rate decreases, thereby restoring physical strength. More importantly, when sleeping, the human body synthesizes the energy substances needed by the body to make it for use during activities. Experiments have shown that energy anabolism in the body exceeds catabolism during sleep, so that the energy consumed by the tissue during activity is supplemented.

2. Protect the brain and restore energy

Sleep is what the brain needs to rest and repair. Lack of sleep, manifested as irritability, excitement or apathy, lax attention, memory loss, long-term lack of sleep can lead to hallucinations. Those who get enough sleep are energetic, quick-thinking, and efficient. This is due to the fact that the human brain has highly developed functions, but after a certain level of continuous operation the brain becomes tired. The oxygen consumption of the brain is greatly reduced during sleep, which is beneficial to the energy storage of brain cells and the repair and maintenance of some important nerve cells. Sleep is not only “body rest”, it is important to rest the brain and eliminate brain fatigue. Therefore, sleep is beneficial to protect the brain and improve brain power.

3. Enhance immunity and recover the body

“Sleep is the first line of defense against disease.” In addition to eliminating fatigue and giving people new vitality, sleep is also closely related to improve immunity and resist diseases. Under normal circumstances, the secretion of corticosteroids will gradually decline at night, and cooperate with melatonin, so that people can quickly enter the dream state. The amount of corticosteroids rises slowly with dawn, reaching a peak near dawn. With adequate sleep, corticosteroids have a natural cycle that refreshes the body. But if you don’t get enough sleep for a week, and corticosteroids don’t peak in the early morning, you’ll experience listlessness and so on. People who lack sleep for a long time, the blood sugar level has increased, which may be caused by the lack of sleep and makes the central nervous system active, inhibits the function of the pancreas, and reduces the secretion of insulin. It can be seen that lack of sleep may be one of the reasons for the increase in the number of people suffering from diabetes in recent years.

4. Delay aging and promote longevity

In a person’s life, awakening and sleep alternate like day and night, which constitute the basic law of life. Once this law is terminated, life will end. Human aging is the first reduction of brain cells, and one of the methods to delay the aging of brain cells is adequate and effective sleep. In recent years, many investigation and research data have shown that healthy and long-lived elderly people have a good and normal sleep. . Therefore, people must pay attention to sleep, the only way to avoid premature aging.

5. Protect people’s mental health

Sleep is very important to protect people’s mental health and maintain their normal psychological activities. Because of poor sleep in a short period of time, there will be distraction, while for a long time, it can cause memory loss, cognitive decline, unreasonable thinking and emotional disorders and other abnormal conditions.

6. Good for skin beauty

Lack of sleep, no matter how much beauty you do, won’t help. Sleep reinfuses the body with new energy. If you don’t sleep well, you will feel stiff joints and weak legs and feet when you wake up in the morning. The skin is also reconditioned at night, and cell division is accelerated by 200% during sleep. During sleep, skin metabolism is active, capillary circulation increases, and its secretion and removal process is strengthened, providing more nutrients and oxygen to the skin, taking away toxins and metabolites, and accelerating skin regeneration, so sleep is beneficial to skin beauty.

Plus1 has launched a non-wearable smart sleep monitoring belt, which can collect all-night sleep information in multiple dimensions through medical-grade ultra-thin sensors, including heart rate, breathing rate, turning over, getting out of bed. Plus1 intelligent sleep monitoring belt can help you improve sleep quality and healthy living standard by monitoring real-time heart rate and breathing rate, recording the duration of falling asleep, sleeping time, and getting out of bed, monitoring abnormal heartbeat and breathing, and analyzing sleep quality.

Research by more and more medical experts shows that one of the important indicators for judging cardiovascular disease is “heart rate”. If the heart rate is accelerated, it will greatly increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Cardiovascular disease patients should manage their heart rate reasonably, optimize their lifestyle, and mix their diets reasonably to ensure a normal life and rest. Cardiovascular disease patients must pay attention to heart rate and do a good job in heart rate management.

The total number of heartbeats in a person’s life is about 2.5 billion to 3 billion times. The regularity of the heartbeat and the number of heartbeats affect human health, especially for patients with cardiovascular disease. Resting heart rate is closely related to cardiovascular disease. Studies have confirmed that people with a fast heart rate at rest have higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and an increased heart rate also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and death. It can be said that the faster the heart rate, the shorter the lifespan. The increased heart rate reflects sympathetic activity in the body. Sympathetic excitement will secrete a large amount of catecholamines such as epinephrine and norepinephrine. Under the action of these hormones, the heart rate will increase, blood pressure will increase, and breathing will increase. When the sympathetic nerve continues to be active and the level of adrenaline secretion continues to increase substantially, the consumption of the heart also increases.

For patients with cardiovascular disease, abnormal heart rate indicates that cardiovascular disease will worsen, so for patients with cardiovascular disease, it is necessary to pay attention to the normal beating of heart rate in time. When heart rate arrhythmia occurs, people will experience symptoms such as feeling depressed, panicked, nervous. Therefore, when heart rate arrhythmia appears, enough attention should be paid and active treatment methods should be taken.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor heart rate and breathing rate, and automatically generate sleep reports and analysis.There is also a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“:

With the acceleration of the social pace, people’s life is getting better and better, and the number of cardiovascular diseases is increasing, which has a great impact on people’s normal life. For patients with cardiovascular disease, heart rate is a measure of the condition. Whether the standard is stable or not, severe patients will experience sudden death, so patients with vascular diseases must usually pay attention to their heart rate.

Many people in the society experience heart rate beating too fast or too slow. For patients with cardiovascular disease, the increase or decrease of the heart rate directly indicates the change of the condition. The unstable heart rate will cause great harm to the body. Therefore, when the heart rate is abnormal, enough attention should be paid to avoid aggravation of cardiovascular disease.

For the elderly with cardiovascular disease, when the heart rate is abnormal, it will bring great harm to life and health, and it is easy to cause serious blood stasis in the atrium, rapid heartbeat, chest tightness, shortness of breath. It leads to different degrees of atrophy and numbness in the limbs of the elderly, and in severe cases, the elderly may be paralyzed.

In the hot summer, it is necessary to do a good job of preventing heatstroke and cooling down in time to prevent heatstroke from causing the heart rate to beat faster. When the heart rate is abnormal, it will bring different degrees of harm to the body. It should be paid enough attention to prevent arrhythmia in life, and do some sports appropriately, and avoid some high-intensity exercise, which will easily lead to the human body. The heart rate beats faster, and a reasonable diet should be done in the usual diet to ensure adequate sleep to prevent the aggravation of cardiovascular disease.

Sympathetic activity and high blood pressure are interrelated. A high heart rate increases the chance of developing high blood pressure, which in turn, can cause damage to heart function.

In people who already have high blood pressure, inhibiting sympathetic nerve activity can slow the heart rate and lower blood pressure. When the heart rate of hypertensive patients is higher than 75 beats/min, heart rate management is recommended. Rational use of antihypertensive drugs under the guidance of doctors, long-term heart rate monitoring, and establishment of a good lifestyle, reasonable diet, moderate exercise, stable mood, guaranteed sleep, and strict self-disciplined living habits, so as to improve the health of patients with hypertension and quality of Life.

Heart rate can be monitored by touch pulse, heart auscultation, electronic sphygmomanometer, electrocardiogram, ambulatory blood pressure.

1. Office heart rate: Count the heart rate by touching the pulse and auscultating of the heart. There are many factors that affect heart rate, including physiological factors, psychological factors, environment and body position. There are many factors affecting the heart rate in the clinic. Even if the measurement is standardized, it is still difficult to avoid overestimating the resting heart rate.

2. Home self-measurement of heart rate: It is recommended that patients use a home automatic sphygmomanometer to measure and report heart rate at the same time. Home self-measurement of heart rate may provide more valuable information for clinical practice. The frequency of home self-measurement of heart rate is usually two times a day in the morning and evening, and the average value is taken.

3. Dynamic heart rate monitoring: It can be measured by 24-hour electrocardiogram and 24-hour blood pressure. Compared with office heart rate and home self-measured heart rate, ambulatory heart rate can provide more predictive information for clinical practice. 24-hour heart rate monitoring reflects the cumulative damage to the arterial wall caused by cardiac hemodynamic load and mechanical tension of the arterial wall. Ambulatory heart rate should be reported in hypertensive patients at the same time as ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can continuously monitor for a long time, monitor the human body’s breathing and heart rate without perception, collect various data, real-time detection, real-time analysis, and real-time early warning. Automatically generate reports and analysis to prevent disease risks.

To achieve targeted control and prevention of sleep problems, the best way is to conduct professional inspections in medical institutions and comprehensive inspections. However, under the constraints of time and cost, most of the time what everyone needs is a service that can provide daily data monitoring and sleep advice. The sleep monitoring service is thus born. From the current point of view, there are three main solutions for this type of service:

1. Mobile APP monitoring: sleep monitoring and guidance are carried out through the sensors that come with the mobile phone.

2. Wearable device monitoring: data monitoring through smart watches/bands and other devices.

3. Non-wearable device monitoring: Attach various sensors to pillows, sheets or bedsides for sleep monitoring.

1. Mobile APP

The mobile app uses the accelerometer, gyroscope, and microphone that come with the mobile phone to monitor sleep movements and analyze sleep quality. The mobile app requires the mobile phone to be as close as possible to the body and turn on the microphone, and then record the complete process from lying down to falling asleep to waking up according to the vibration of the bed and the surrounding sound.

Mobile app generally have functions: monitor sleep time, monitor deep sleep time, record sleep talking or snoring, record wake time, etc. But it is not difficult to find that the mobile phone app monitoring is in principle through the sensor of the mobile phone to sense the vibration of the bed and the surrounding sound. This is okay for single people, there is only one person on the bed. If the couple sleeps together and more than one person shares the same bed, this calculation is problematic. In addition, monitoring with a mobile phone app also has problems such as radiation and power consumption. Since there is no direct contact with the person being monitored, data such as pulse and blood oxygen saturation cannot be monitored. In addition, if you operate mobile phones, tablets and other devices before going to bed, the blue light emitted by the screen will affect the formation of melatonin in the human body and have a negative impact on sleep.

2. Wearable Devices

Wearable devices have their own acceleration sensors. Whether you wear a bracelet or a watch, you can more accurately perceive your movements and biological data through the built-in sensors.

When the built-in sensor of the wearable device records your exercise status and biological data, the data is transmitted to the mobile phone through bluetooth, and based on the personal information you provide, such as age, height, weight, etc., it is analyzed in the mobile phone app, and finally a series of statistical results are given. What data is included in the statistics depends on what hardware capabilities your wearable device has. If your wearable has a heart rate sensor, it can record changes in your heart rate while you sleep. If there are red LED and infrared LED, blood oxygen levels can also be detected. These are all auxiliary analysis effects for your sleep monitoring, which are much more accurate than mobile phone monitoring. Moreover, the wearable device is independent and will not be affected by the monitoring data of the person sleeping together.

This measurement method is much more accurate than a mobile phone, but if you want to thoroughly know how your brain waves are active when you sleep, or to accurately analyze what causes your insomnia, a wristband or watch is far from being able to do. On the other hand, professional medical equipment is often more expensive and inconvenient to carry. Wearable devices solve the problem of carrying, which can facilitate us to monitor sleep quality and make targeted improvements based on sleep conditions.

3. Non-wearable devices

Common non-wearable devices include smart mattresses, smart pillows, smart bed belts, and smart buckles. Such smart hardware products, which are solely designed for sleep monitoring, generally have built-in high-sensitivity sensors that can record the user’s sleep quality, heart rate, breathing and snoring.

Users can view the sleep report analyzed by the software on the mobile phone through a bluetooth connection. The biggest weakness of wearables is their inability to record and analyze breathing, which is the advantage of non-wearables. Non-wearable devices also monitor sleep quality for personal movement. Although they are placed on the bed, they are in close contact with people, making movement recording more accurate.