Apple has acquired the Beddit Sleep Monitor system, according to an update to the company’s privacy policy. Beddit’s system includes an app that syncs up with a ribbon-shaped sensor placed between a user’s mattress and sheet to monitor everything from heart rate and breathing to room temperature and snoring.
The app then provides tips on how to improve the user’s sleep based on the collected data, and Beddit’s site now touts the ability to link its own app to the iPhone’s Health app through HealthKit. The move further underscores Apple’s ambitious push into health monitoring technology, hinted at last year by CEO Tim Cook when he admitted that the Apple Watch might not be the only device needed to meet his ultimate vision.
“The holy grail of the watch is being able to monitor more and more of what’s going on in your body,” Cook said at Startup Fest Europe. “If you could have a device that knew so much about you, it would be incredible, and would extend life and extend quality.
