IoT That Could Save Your Life

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April 10, 2025

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Hello readers,

Welcome to the IoT For All newsletter! This week we’re talking about how IoT can save your life, the future of healthcare security in an AIoT world, and more!

Sleep long, dream well

We spend a lot of time talking about how IoT can increase operational efficiency or reduce business costs. But it's got another trick up its sleeve that hits a little closer to home: saving your life.

Earlier this week, Samsung Electronics and Stanford University announced a joint research project to use Samsung smartwatches to help protect against obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The feature itself isn't new. Samsung received De Novo authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February of last year, a classification reserved for medical tools that are not substantially equivalent to any existing device.

Over the course of two nights of monitoring, the watch can check for signs of sleep apnea by monitoring breathing patterns and blood oxygen levels, allowing it to detect OSA — a disorder that affects roughly 25% of men and 10% of women in the U.S. — in individuals who are as yet undiagnosed. Stanford's study aims to go beyond just detection, using AI to help manage the disorder and perhaps even improve sufferers' health.

While it's certainly good news for anyone affected by OSA and who owns a Samsung smartwatch, this type of research collaboration is far from the first of its kind. Research studies have also used Apple Watches to investigate the early phases of Parkinson's disease. And back in 2020, Garmin partnered with nonprofit organization PhysioQ to help perform COVID-19 research with health data from Garmin smartwatches.

Paired with approaches that bring IoT capabilities to more typical healthcare equipment like inhalers, IV pumps, and CPAP machines, these consumer-grade solutions help provide a clearer picture and access to more data than more traditional research procedures ever could on their own.

The end result? We can all sleep — and breathe — a little easier.

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