Sleep Position Monitor: Three Jobs People Mix Up
Dovy Paukstys
Founder, Komori Care
Sleep Position Monitor: Three Jobs People Mix Up
By Dovy Paukstys, Founder, Komori Care
This article is educational and is not medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any condition. Komori is not a medical device, is not FDA-cleared, does not detect seizures, and is not intended for people with epilepsy. Talk with a neurologist or epileptologist about personal medical decisions. Households living with epilepsy should use clinically validated seizure-detection devices as directed by their care team.
You typed "sleep position monitor" or "sleep position tracker" and the results dumped three different products in one pile.
A ring that guesses stages. A watch that wants to be a night watch. A camera that records a room. A pad under a mattress. A contactless sensor that only cares how a body is lying.
Those are not the same job. People buy the wrong row and then feel cheated by all of them.
I don't have epilepsy. I build the first row. I do not sell a detector. This page is the split. If you came from a night-safety search, the other version of this table already lives at night monitors: seizure detection vs sleep position. I am not rewriting it.
What a sleep position monitor is
A sleep position monitor answers one question. Was the night spent on the side, the back, or the stomach.
That is it.
It does not score "deep sleep." It does not classify an event. It does not call anyone. It does not watch your face. If the copy on a box promises those extras, you are no longer shopping this category. You are shopping a different one that borrowed the words.
Contactless means no camera and no strap. Through blankets is the point. You should not have to charge a wrist and hope it is still on at 3 a.m.
Position is a fact about the body. Stage is a guess about the brain. Detection is a medical job a care team has to name. Mixing the three is how a wellness gadget starts talking like a clinic.
Komori Care is that first product. Kickstarter is the plan for Q1 2027. That date is when we hope it exists. It is not a clearance.
Three jobs
| Job | Typical product | What it can answer | Claim we will not make |
|---|---|---|---|
| Know sleep position | Contactless position monitor | Side, back, or stomach, and how long | That this detects seizures or prevents anything |
| Label sleep stages | Wrist wearable or ring | A vendor's map of light, deep, and REM | That those labels are a clinical sleep study |
| Detect a convulsive seizure | Wearable, mattress pad, or camera, named by a clinician | Enough repeated shaking to trigger an alarm | That Komori does this |
Row one is the category this URL is about. Komori sits there. Only there.
Row two is the sleep-stage wearable. A wrist knows a wrist. It does not have a clean view of whether the torso was face down.
Row three is a medical job. A neurologist or epileptologist names the device, if one belongs in the house. I will not rank brands in that row. I will not put our name in it. I am not lining a position sensor up next to a clinical detector as if they compete.
Position is not a stage, and it is not an event
Sleep-stage products sell a night as pie charts. Light. Deep. REM. The marketing is confident. The measurement is a guess from motion and pulse.
A position monitor does not have to win that argument. It is not in that argument. Side versus stomach is a fact about geometry. You can argue about "deep sleep." You cannot argue as much about face down.
Detection is the other mix-up. Families search nighttime seizure monitor when they want something that says go down the hall. That is row three. A morning position log is not that alarm.
Do not buy row one and tell yourself you purchased row three. Do not buy row two and tell yourself you purchased row one.
What a tracker in this category should not do
It should not claim FDA clearance it does not have. Komori is not FDA-cleared. It is not a medical device.
It should not claim it detects seizures. It should not claim it is for people with epilepsy. It should not claim it prevents SUDEP. If a sentence on our site ever sounds like we crossed that line, it is a mistake. The table is the claim.
It should not need a camera in a bedroom where a person did not ask to be on video. Privacy is not a slogan. It is why contactless exists.
It should not turn restlessness into a label. Motion of the mattress is motion of the mattress. A clinician owns the word seizure.
How this sits next to the other pages
If you want the comfort argument for a pose — why there is no single "best" position, what the stomach costs, and how to hold a side start — that is how to stop sleeping on your stomach. If the question is whether you were on your belly at all, that is how to know if you sleep on your stomach.
What SUDEP is and is not and nighttime seizures are the night-safety pages. Stay, Safe, Side is first aid.
Households living with epilepsy should use clinically validated seizure-detection devices as directed by their care team. Compare those on the clinic's terms. Not on a wellness waitlist.
What to do with a position log
Look at the morning. See whether the story you tell yourself matches the night.
If you think you are a side sleeper and the log says stomach after 2 a.m., that is useful. If your neck hurts and the log says you spent six hours with the head cranked, that is useful. Then stop. Do not treat a bar chart as a care plan.
Kickstarter in Q1 2027 is when we hope row one exists in a box. It is not a study. It is not a detector launch. If you are still deciding which job you need, take the table to a clinician and ask which row belongs in the house.
I would rather lose the sale than blur the table.
You can choose a position at lights-out. Knowing what you held until morning is the hard part.
Komori is a contactless monitor that logs which position you slept in, through blankets, with no camera and nothing to wear. Pre-launch — join the list and we'll tell you when it ships.
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