Beyond the Day: Sleep Monitoring and the Expanding PPG Biosensor Market
Description: Discussing the rapidly gaining traction of Sleep Monitoring as a key application, driven by increasing public awareness of sleep disorders and their link to chronic health.
Sleep Monitoring is emerging as a significant growth application within the PPG Biosensor Market, moving beyond basic sleep duration tracking. There is a growing public and clinical awareness that poor sleep quality and undiagnosed sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, are strongly correlated with chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This connection is driving demand for devices that can provide accurate, continuous monitoring throughout the night.
PPG biosensors play a crucial role in this application by non-invasively measuring two key metrics during sleep: heart rate variability (HRV) and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2). Reductions in SpO2, detected via the PPG sensor, are a strong indicator of respiratory disturbances like apnea, while changes…