Apple hires a sleep monitoring expert from Phillips, integrates him into the iWatch team

  The team developing the smartwatch iWatch has recently a new member, Roy JEM Raymann being his name, he being in the past one of the important employees of Phillips. Raymann is a well-known expert in sleep monitoring, having extensive experience in the development of devices that can be worn by users, sensors that can be implemented in them, but also non-pharmaceutical methods to improve the sleep of users of these products.

  As an employee of Phillips, Raymann founded the Phillips Sleep Experience Laboratory, a non-pharmaceutical research center whose purpose was to conduct research in the field of monitoring the sleep of human beings, he of course being the leader of several projects carried out there. Over the years the new employee Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he has written various scientific articles related to methods of easily waking users from sleep by gently heating the skin or applying pressure to various points of the body, all using devices that can be worn by users.

  Many of the manufacturers of smart bracelets have implemented systems that monitor users' sleep, and it would not be hard to believe that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), could do the same in the idea of ​​giving us suggestions to improve our sleep. The employment of Raymann represents an important step taken by the Americans for the development of iWatch and if this functionality will be part of the smartwatch, then we are talking about an extremely interesting set of options that those from Cupertino will offer us.

  The new functionality will work through the application Healthbook a iOS 8.