The photo “Sleeping on the river bed” by Nimai Chandra Ghosh won a special mention in the WHO photo and video contest Images of Health and Disability 2007 Special Theme: Health and Environment. A boy sleeps on a dried-up river bed in India. Experts believe that climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts. N im ai C ha nd ra G ho sh Will increased awareness of the health ...

In modern society, a large portion of the population suffers from sleep disorder. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with functioning of daily lives. Therefore knowing how well one sleeps is an important health indicator that can lead to more aggressive actions. In this demo, we present SNORES: Sensor Networks Oriented REsearch in Sleep. SNORES is an in-home sleep monitoring s...

This sounds more like a joke than a warning. But, in fact, habitual loud snoring is the most common symptom of breathing disorders that occur during sleep. The person who snores not only sleeps restlessly, but also is at risk for serious disorders of the heart and lungs. Snoring can therefore be lifethreatening because it can lead to high blood pressure, irregular heart beats, heart attacks, an...

Autonomous vehicles will not be driven by a human being. The missing of the human being will make the vehicles less inspected because a human being often listens to the engine and its sounds. A passenger in an autonomous vehicle usually does other things and even sleeps, so the human inspection on the engine and on the pipes system will not be effective. This paper suggests a system that alerts...