App offers free feature that uses AI to map local coughing data amidst flu season

New York’s Staten Island Coughing can get worse at night, and a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can monitor your coughing habits while you sleep and even provide you with information about the locations you frequently visit.

Leading sleep technology company Sleep Cycle is launching a free Cough Radar tool that records the frequency and occurrence of your coughing fits while you sleep and offers community-level insights.

According to Mikael K. Gebeck, Chief Technology Officer at Sleep Cycle, Cough Radar gives customers the ability to make educated decisions by enabling them to comprehend the prevalence of respiratory-related disorders in their community. For instance, you might decide to shop online or in a less populated center if there is a big coughing cloud where you were going to go.

The Sleep Cycle app is most well-known for its mobile platform, which tracks sleep patterns through analysis. It monitors a number of variables, including the length of sleep, the light, deep, and REM stages, the movement and sound of the sleep, the time it takes to fall asleep, the consistency of the sleep, and more.

The Cough Radar premium function, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary, identifies and monitors individual coughing patterns at night and notifies users if their coughing is increased, high, or normal. Through an interactive map that shows coughing clouds in areas with a higher risk of sickness, it also provides real-time community coughing patterns and notifies users when coughing levels increase in their location.

From December 9 through the end of February of the following year, consumers will be able to access this function for free.

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According to Michael Gradisar, Head of Sleep Science at Sleep Cycle, cough radar measures the frequency of coughs but can not identify the underlying causes. The majority of cough spread factors are under our control, and with the increased understanding in our communities in recent years, we can use facts to make informed decisions and lessen fear of being sick.

They claim that user location data is anonymised. Only in regions with a minimum of 125 users within a 7.5-kilometer radius is coughing data gathered.

The typical cold, viruses like COVID-19, flu, and RSV, as well as illnesses like croup, asthma, acid reflux, and others, can all cause coughs.

Despite the fact that illness can strike at any time of year, doctors typically consider October through March to be the cold and flu season because this is when infections are most common.

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