Major Advances in Sleep Health Technology Mark World Sleep Day
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Last edit: January 13, 2026
March 13, 2025
World Sleep Day, the annual spotlight on sleep health that promotes education, research and patient care, is being held on March 14. Withings is marking the occasion by highlighting the extensive technology development and research the company is doing to promote better sleep and more accessible sleep diagnostics.
Because sleep affects so many chronic conditions – from diabetes, stroke and heart disease to obesity, anxiety and depression – higher quality sleep is one of the few areas of impact that can universally change human health for the better.
That’s why the Withings team has spent its waking hours for the past several years developing and testing technology to improve global sleep quality. In September, Withings Sleep Rx was given FDA clearance as the first contactless device to aid in the diagnosis of sleep apnea, joining the Withings Sleep Analyzer, a device that is CE marked to diagnose sleep apnea in the EU.
Sleep Rx and the other Withings devices that use the same hardware are being used in major sleep studies around the world. Because the devices are contactless and lay under the patient’s mattress, they enable large-scale studies that would previously have been nearly impossible to conduct. Here is just a sampling of recent research using or related to Withings sleep devices.
Cognitive Performance of Critical Shift Workers
Non-daytime shift workers – like nurses, firefighters, mariners, military personnel and transit drivers – have a 60% greater risk of workplace accidents. Using Withings Sleep Analyzer, which uses the same hardware technology as Sleep Rx, researchers were able to understand the cognitive impacts of different lighting conditions to develop a model for predicting performance under varying sleep conditions and time of day of the sleep.
Results supported the utility of simple non-intrusive sleep monitoring via consumer sleep technology to estimate post-sleep work shift performance and safety during non-daytime shift schedules.
Jack Manners, Eva Kemps, Alisha Guyett, Nicole Stuart, Bastien Lechat, Peter Catcheside, Hannah Scott. Estimating vigilance from the pre-work shift sleep using an under-mattress sleep sensor. Journal of Sleep Research, 2024.
How Many Nights of Sleep Data Do We Really Need?
An article in JMIR Formative Research examines how traditional sleep assessments rely on short-term tracking (3–14 days), while a six-month study using Withings’ wearables and sleep sensors suggests this may not be enough. Researchers found that seasonal variations and long-term patterns significantly impact sleep health, reinforcing the importance of continuous monitoring to gain a more accurate picture of sleep behaviors.
Óskarsdóttir M, Islind AS, August E, et al. Importance of getting enough sleep and daily activity data to assess variability: a longitudinal observational study. JMIR Formative Research, 2022.
The Future of Sleep Research: Large-Scale, Decentralized Studies
An article in Current Sleep Medicine Reports details how the growing adoption of wearable and nearable sleep tech is enabling researchers to shift toward real-world, long-term data collection. Ongoing studies using Withings technology are paving the way for remote clinical trials, enabling deeper insights into sleep disorders and their broader health impacts.
Jaiswal SJ, Pawelek JB, Warshawsky S, et al. Using new technologies and wearables for characterizing sleep in population-based studies. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 2024.
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