Sleep and Sleep Position: What the Research Says
Adults spend roughly a third of their lives asleep. Researchers continue to explore what happens overnight — how body position, ambient environment, and movement patterns relate to subjective sleep quality. This page is an educational overview of where contactless overnight monitoring fits in. It is not a product pitch and not medical advice.
Komori is a general wellness device in development. It is not a medical device, not FDA-cleared, and not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any condition. If you have concerns about your sleep — loud snoring, witnessed pauses in breathing, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, restless legs, or other disturbances — please see a sleep clinician for a proper evaluation.
How Komori Works
Sleep Comfortably
No wearables to irritate sensitive skin or disrupt sleep. The contactless sensor works through blankets above your bed.
Record Position & Environment
Komori is designed to record body position, movement patterns, and bedroom environment (ambient temperature, humidity) overnight. No charging, no wearable to remember.
Review Your Own Data
Komori is designed so you can review a personal overview of position and environment patterns and, if you choose, share the data with a healthcare provider. Komori is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.
What You'll Discover
Personal Wake Review
Komori is designed to surface room-condition context — noise events, ambient temperature shifts — alongside times you were awake, so you can review your own patterns.
Bedroom Environment
Komori is designed to record temperature and humidity trends in the bedroom for personal review.
Position Breakdown
Komori is designed to record body position over the course of a night for personal review.
Night Review Timeline
Komori is designed to surface a minute-by-minute timeline of position shifts and movement patterns for personal review.
Overnight Temperature Trends
See how the bedroom temperature shifts overnight. Contactless and processed locally by default.
Bed-Exit Reminders
Komori is designed to send a notification when an extended bed exit is detected. Not a replacement for a medical alert system.
Custom Reminders
Set personal-curiosity reminders for movement, sound events, or environmental changes you want to be aware of.
Personal Notifications
Personal notifications for events you care about, on your own schedule.
A Brief Overview of Sleep Science
The information below is educational and is not a substitute for evaluation by a clinician.
Sleep position is one of several factors researchers examine when looking at overnight physiology. Findings vary across studies and across individuals — what a person experiences personally is best understood with the help of a qualified clinician, not a consumer device.
What Sleep Researchers Study
Sleep researchers examine architecture (stages), continuity (wakes), breathing, autonomic regulation, body position, and environmental context. Many of these can only be measured precisely in a sleep lab.
When to See a Clinician
Loud snoring with witnessed apneas, chronic insomnia, severe daytime sleepiness, narcolepsy-like symptoms, restless legs, or parasomnias all warrant evaluation by a sleep clinician — typically via an in-lab polysomnogram or home sleep apnea test.
Where to Learn More
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (sleepeducation.org) and the National Sleep Foundation publish patient-facing educational materials and directories of accredited sleep centers.
For diagnosis, treatment, or management of any sleep disorder, speak with a qualified healthcare provider.
An Example Night Review
Illustrative only — a mock of how a personal night summary may look.
Last Night · Tue Mar 11
8h 42m total · 96% in-bed
Position Breakdown
Night Timeline
Komori is designed to surface a personal overview of position, movement, and environmental patterns from the night. The data is for personal review and, optionally, for sharing with a healthcare provider. Komori is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition.
Why Komori?
vs. Wrist Wearables
Wrist wearables (Apple Watch, Whoop, Fitbit) can feel uncomfortable for sleep and don't capture body position.
vs. Smart Rings
Smart rings (Oura, Ultrahuman) focus on wrist-style metrics and don't capture sleep position.
vs. Under-Mattress Mats
Under-mattress mats (Withings, Emfit, Sleep Number) are typically single-person and don't capture body position.
Readers this content may help
This is general background reading. It is not personalized medical advice.
Curious Readers
People exploring how researchers think about overnight body position and contactless monitoring.
Privacy-Conscious
Readers who want background on contactless approaches without cameras in the bedroom.
Clinicians
Clinicians curious about contactless approaches to recording overnight body position and movement patterns.
Family Members
Partners and family members supporting a loved one who has questions about overnight body position and environment.
Komori is a General Wellness device with no FDA clearance. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any condition.
This is personal.
My twin boys got sepsis in the NICU. One of them was infected three times — the only documented case. All I wanted was to know they were okay.
Those nights changed everything for me. I couldn't stop thinking about how helpless it felt to not know what was happening while someone you love is sleeping. That question — "are they okay right now?" — never really left me. It followed me through 20 years of building data systems, through designing Owlet's data pipeline, through leading technology at SAMi Alert. Every role taught me something, but the question was always the same.
I built Komori for families like mine. Families who lie awake wondering. Families searching for insights that lead to answers. You spend a third of your life asleep. The night has answers. But you can't act on what you can't see.
Komori opens that black box. 60GHz radar that sees through blankets. No camera. No wearable. No video. Just data nobody's been able to give you before.
I designed every system. Every algorithm. This isn't a side project. It's the reason I learned everything I know.
Dovy Paukstys, Founder
Former Senior Solution Architect at Owlet Baby Care · Fractional CTO of SAMi Alert · 20 years in data engineering
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