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    MIT sleep monitor can track people's sleeping positions using radio signals

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    09.11.2020

    A team of MIT researchers has developed a device that can monitor people’s sleep postures without having to use cameras or to stick sensors on their body. It’s a wall-mounted monitor the team dubbed BodyCompass, and it works by analyzing radio signals as they bounce off objects in a room. As the researchers explained, a device that can monitor sleep postures has many potential uses.