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. 2021 Apr 21;24(5):102461. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102461

Table 1.

Summary of recently developed wearable systems for sleep monitoring applications

Parameters Data Sensors Sensor locations References
Brain waves EEG Wet/dry electrode Scalp (Arnal et al., 2019)
Forehead (Arnal et al., 2019), (Levendowski et al., 2017), (Lin et al., 2017), (Shustak et al., 2019)
Ear (Alqurashi et al., 2018), (Sterr et al., 2018), (Mikkelsen et al., 2019)
Heart activity ECG Wet/dry electrode Chest (Klum et al., 2020), (Ilen et al., 2019), (Di Rienzo et al., 2018), (Yoon et al., 2018)
ICG Wet electrode Chest (Klum et al., 2020)
PCG Stethoscope Chest (Klum et al., 2020)
SCG Accelerometer Chest (Di Rienzo et al., 2018)
Pulse wave PPG LED & photodiode Finger (Liao et al., 2020), (Kinnunen et al., 2020)
Nose (Manoni et al., 2020)
Forehead (Arnal et al., 2019), (Levendowski et al., 2017)
SpO2 LED & photodiode Wrist (Braun et al., 2020)
Forehead (Beppler et al., 2018)
Ear (Davies et al., 2020)
IPG Dry electrode Wrist (Schneider et al., 2018)
Pulse pressure Pressure sensor Wrist (Meng et al., 2020)
Respiration Body movement Strain gauge, accelerometer, magnetometer Chest (Klum et al., 2020), (Ding et al., 2018), (Ramírez et al., 2019), (Di Rienzo et al., 2018), (Milici et al., 2018)
Head (Arnal et al., 2019)
Air flow Humidity sensor Nose (Jin et al., 2017)
Lung sound Stethoscope Chest (Klum et al., 2020)
Movement EMG Dry electrode Leg (Jortberg et al., 2018)
Actigraphy Accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer Wrist (Liao et al., 2020), (Kwasnicki et al., 2018)
Leg (Bobovych et al., 2020)
Chest (Ilen et al., 2019), (Kwasnicki et al., 2018)
Body position Accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer Wrist (Kwasnicki et al., 2018)
Chest (Yun et al., 2020), (Kwasnicki et al., 2018)
Nose (Manoni et al., 2020)
Others EDA Dry electrode Wrist (Romine et al., 2019), (Kim et al., 2021)
Finger (Lam and Szypula, 2018)
Tongue deformation Ultrasonic transducer Chin (Weng et al., 2017)
Body temperature Thermometer Chest, wrist (Di Rienzo et al., 2018), (Liao et al., 2020)
Snoring sound Microphone Forehead (Levendowski et al., 2017)