Modern medicine is extraordinary – but it often arrives too late. By the time patients enter a hospital, many health conditions have already compromised their quality of life. Sensowell was created to turn this model on its head, leading a shift from reactive treatments to proactive prevention.
The company’s mission is clear: to empower people to make healthier choices and seek medical guidance before problems escalate. “Most health issues nowadays are lifestyle problems and therefore avoidable by health choices made at the right time,” the Sensowell team emphasizes.
At the heart of this vision is a powerful idea: your bed can do more than provide rest – it can help safeguard your health by alerting you to seek medical attention before it’s too late.
A Journey of Reinvention
Sensowell’s story began seven years ago, when a small team of experts from academia and industry first came together. Their early focus was on creating bed mattresses with integrated air purification systems to help dust allergy sufferers. But the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the world’s health priorities overnight.
Suddenly, the need for accurate, continuous health monitoring became urgent. Sensowell responded by pivoting its research and design efforts toward sensor-based technologies that track vital health parameters. That decision marked the beginning of a remarkable journey into the future of sleep and preventive healthcare.
Science at the Core
What sets Sensowell apart is not just its vision, but the scientific rigor behind it. The company’s groundbreaking technology has been developed in close collaboration with the University of Tartu, one of Estonia’s leading research institutions. Materials science experts Tanel Tätte, PhD, and Alexander Vanetsev, PhD, Emergency Medical Doctor Signe Seppo (MD), along with engineer Tauri Tätte, have played pivotal roles in guiding R&D.
Under their leadership, extensive research and testing have confirmed the technology’s accuracy and reliability. This collaboration ensures that Sensowell’s innovations are not just commercially viable but also scientifically validated, giving the company a firm foundation for continuous breakthroughs.
Innovation in an Unexpected Industry
Mattress manufacturing has long been considered low-tech – limited to springs, foam, and fabric. Sensowell has redefined that category. By embedding advanced sensors into mattresses, the company transforms ordinary beds into contactless, fully automatic health monitoring facilities.
Using hollow elastic profiles integrated into the mattress – a technology already patented in Europe and China, with US patents pending – the system captures sounds and vibrations from the human body during sleep. Unlike wearables, which collect data from peripheral areas like the wrist or finger, Sensowell monitors cardiovascular and respiratory functions directly and in detail.
How It Works
From the user’s perspective, Sensowell couldn’t be simpler. Plug the mattress into a power source, install the Sensowell app, and sleep. No straps, no watches, no effort.
While you sleep, the invisible sensor continuously monitors your heart rate, breathing, and sleep quality – producing more accurate readings than any wearable device. The system goes further, capturing the full spectrum of body sounds, both normal and abnormal, linked to cardiac activity, respiration, and peristaltic processes, ensuring a truly comprehensive health analysis.
“Innovation in deep tech is always a sequence of trials and errors in a search for proper problems and solutions.”
The system identifies irregular heart rhythms such as a trial fibrillation, extra systoles, flutters, and AV blockades. It can even detect vascular calcification by registering murmurs in blood flow.
Armed with this information, users can take proactive steps – fine-tuning their diet, exercise, and sleep routines – and consult their doctors before minor issues become serious health concerns. Remarkably, despite its sophistication, the technology increases the cost of a regular mattress by only about 10–15%.
Small Changes, Big Impact
Did you know that the quality of your sleep directly impacts your energy, mood, and long-term health? Sensowell makes it easy to act on that knowledge. By delivering actionable insights, the technology empowers people to make small but meaningful lifestyle changes. The result: waking up refreshed, energized, and armed with the awareness needed to protect long-term well-being.
The Tipping Point
The true breakthrough came when the Sensowell team realized the extraordinary potential of hollow elastic profiles to capture body sounds. This innovation provided the sensitivity needed to monitor both breathing and heart activity at a medical level of detail – all without disturbing the sleeper. It was the discovery that transformed Sensowell from an idea into a disruptive force in preventive health.
“With this information in hand, Sensowell™ is in many ways much more powerful in detecting health conditions than wearables,” the team explains.
Expanding Across Borders
Today, Sensowell technology is already available in Estonia and Sweden. The next stage is global expansion, achieved by partnering with established bed manufacturers in new markets. Beyond commercial sales, Sensowell is also working with healthcare and social institutions in Estonia, Finland, and Israel, deepening its impact across multiple ecosystems.
A Future Full of Promise
The Sensowell team believes they are only scratching the surface of what their technology can achieve. “Most exciting about our company’s future will be realizing the full potential of technology in heart work monitoring and improving the life quality of users based on collected data,” they note.
By combining science, comfort, and data, Sensowell is charting a path toward a world where monitoring chronic disease risk becomes as natural as sleeping.
The Final Word
At its core, Sensowell is about turning everyday moments into life-saving opportunities. By reimagining the humble mattress, the company is giving people the tools to live longer, healthier, and more prosperous lives.
“Innovation in deep tech is always a sequence of trials and errors in a search for proper problems and solutions,” the team reflects.
With Sensowell, those solutions are no longer confined to hospitals – they’re found every night, in the comfort of your own bed.
Sensowell health system usage instructions
Sensowell health system contains following parts:
- Top mattress with integrated Sensowell sensor system.
- Sensowell software for smart mobile phones (iOS and Android).
- Power source (220V/5V; EN and EC standard).
- Sensowell usage instruction.
Requirements for smart phone for using Sensowell app:
- iOS or Androd type operation system (version 10 or fresher).
- Screen, 400 x 600 points minimal.
- Devise should support Bluetooth (BLE; version 4.2 or fresher) connection.
- For installation of software and its updates, the phone must be connected to the internet as well as it needs to support Bluetooth connection.
