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The Spanish technology-based company manufacture innovative medical devices to detect sleep disorders, improve sleep quality and enhance personal performance. The importance of the circadian system is being increasingly recognised in clinical medicine. This Spanish company has designed and manufactured wearable, multisensory devices and procedures that accurately quantify sleep and circadian disruption. Such developments are key to personalised medicine. Devices can monitor circadian rhythms and sleep when positioned on beds, deliver information about lifestyle and the bidirectional crosstalk between internal time and external synchronizers. The wearable clock-like can be used to detect sleep disorders and circadian impairments over a long period and in a wide range of people under free-living conditions. It has been validated for sleep-wake detection and has proven useful across a range of very different populations such as shift workers, babies, hypertensive patients and patients with metabolic syndrome, ageing, mild cognitive impairment, cancer or, more recently, in sleep-disordered breathing and Parkinson´s disease. The device for use on beds addresses the need to measure, register, monitor, analyse and diagnose abnormal circadian rhythm and sleep patterns. Innovatively, it takes into account the patient’s living conditions, including hospital environments and workplace ergonomics. Since it functions without the need for physical contact with the subject, the tool is particularly relevant when patients are bedbound. The company also offers a complementary online platform that analyses data and delivers a report containing expert guidance and advice, as extra service. All products are CE Marked and fill an existing gap in the market for systems that can comprehensively monitor subjects. Data from recordings is exported to an online platform that analyses the information and delivers an expert report including indicators for the patient’s circadian health