Nexense Ltd. Anti - snoring sensor.

SleePure - A new non-invasive sensor technology reduces snoring
Ilan Gur M.D , Arik Ariav PhD , Arik Eisenkraft M.D

The Nexense Measurement Method
By applying the known principles of physics in a unique way, Nexense has managed to improve a measurement method, which has led to a means of improving a broad variety of sensors, used among other things to detect, recognize and discontinue snoring.
Nexense’s measurement method enables sensors to be designed so that they are up to

100,000 times more sensitive than current sensors.

The Nexense measurement method enables many different physical parameters to be more accurately measured. Specifically, they have been shown to provide a significant improvement over traditional sensors for the following physical parameters: distance, weight, strain, pressure, acceleration, temperature, vibration, volume, viscosity, density, mass, displacement, flow, torque, shape, tilt, and more.
Snoring has been found to increase in frequency with age. Snorers are commonly overweight and frustrated by the social consequences of their noisy night-time resonance. Sleep disordered breathing including habitual snoring is associated with hypertension, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and daytime sleepiness.
Using the non-invasive Nexense technology (The SleePure ) we have tried and managed to reduce dramatically the amount of snoring in a matter of days. (Figure 1)

Figures 2: shows data recorded during sleep, which includes heart rate, respirations, movements, and snores. The sensor is placed under the mattress and records the user’s movements, heart rate, respiration and snores. It allows the evaluating of the amplitude and rate of these indexes in detail. The highly accurate sensing method enables us to identify the different components, in a way that once the sensor documents the vibration of a snore, a vibrator starts to shake around the wrist of the person. The shake is gentle enough not to bring the person to full consciousness, yet he stops snoring. During the last years we performed sleep studies on 30 patients known as "snorers" during 500 nights all together.

Figure 3 shows the number of snore's episodes during 5 days with and without the SleePure system.
We succeeded to achieved a dramatic reduction in the number and the intensity of snores.
We conclude that by using the Nexense SleePure system we can reduce the number and duration of the snoring episodes and improve the quality of sleep in the snoring population and we will soon perform a controlled study to prove it.