Adjustable Smart Pillow with Audio Sensors Sahasra Pokkunuri Old Bridge High School Old Bridge, New Jersey Teacher:

Overview

Obstructive sleep apnea is a common and serious disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops due to the throat collapsing and closing the airway. It can happen from 5 to 30 times each hour each night, which impairs one’s ability to achieve restful sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, about 18 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, and 90 million Americans snore or have snoring problems costing about $149.6 billion per year. The gold standard remedy for treating apnea is a C.P.A.P. machine, but those have been proven to be invasive, bulky, loud, and a cause of headaches. Research has been explored to reduce apnea incidents by miniaturizing and developing a soundless C.P.A.P. machine using small piezo-electric blowers and also examined the possibility of snore reduction by taking pressure off the airway during sleep with an autonomous head-tilting pillow equipped with audio sensors. These two devices have been proven to be successful when the mini-C.P.A.P. caused a 100% reduction in the number of apnea incidents, whereas SmartPillow resulted in a 92% reduction of snoring incidents. A Chi-square test is administered to validate ways mini-C.P.A.P. and SmartPillow responded to apnea and snoring incidents.

Competition history

• JSHS 2020 Category not listed

Resources

• National JSHS abstract book ↗

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