Longitudinal Infant Sleep Monitoring Using a Sensor-Enabled Responsive Bassinet: A Population-Scale Feasibility Study
Savannah Gluck, Teresa A. Lillis, Karthik Aroor, Christopher M. Laine, Harvey Karp · 2026
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Savannah Gluck and colleagues present a 2026 feasibility study on tracking baby sleep at home scale with a sensor-equipped smart bassinet. The bed logs motion and sound, and rocks and soothes on its own when fussing starts. From the device logs of 26,187 infants, the team derived standard sleep measures, such as longest sleep stretch and night sleep total. They added new measures of fussing and of how soothing changed the night.
The bassinet-based patterns lined up broadly with what earlier small studies report for the first six months of life. Some gaps remain, which the authors trace to method and to the bed's own soothing. The work shows that device data can map sleep growth curves for huge groups cheaply, opening studies of sleep and caregiver interplay.
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| CREATOR | Savannah Gluck, Teresa A. Lillis, Karthik Aroor, Christopher M. Laine, Harvey Karp |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38334 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |