Zeo shutting down: export your data!

[Colin_Lawlor]

@Agaricus

Yes, Lori and gwern are correct, Resmed bought the Zeo assets and is now launching their own sleep tracker, the S+. The official site appears to be at this URL now: Sleep apnea and COPD - learn about symptoms and treatment | ResMed.

I wrote to Ben Rubin a while back to see what I could find out about Zeo assets. He didn’t know but connected me to Dave Dickinson, the ex-CEO, who put me in touch with Colin Lawlor at ResMed. Colin confirmed this news, on the condition I wait a few weeks before making it public.

Colin also showed me the sleep sensor they have been working on. Yes, it is a motion sensor. However, the trick they are using is not to directly infer sleep from movement, but to infer respiratory patterns (this is their area of expertise), and then infer sleep from respiration. They are also doing some distance sensing, to reduce noise. The requirement is that the sensor sit on a nightstand, pointing toward the sleeper’s chest. We’ll post some data samples here when we can.

Colin offered to answer Zeo specific questions, or at least try to answer them. Here are the questions I’ve asked so far:

What were the assets of Zeo’s that Resmed acquired?
What did you learn? Anything of value?
Can the “download your Zeo data” be turned back on?
If you aren’t doing anything with the console and headband operational code, could these be released in some way?

He said he or a colleague would answer here directly when he had a chance. Feel free to ask your own questions.

Gary

Hi Gary,

I’m sorry it took a little time to reply.

ResMed did acquire some of the Zeo assets including intellectual property. The anonymised sleep data were used to make comparisons with our extensive research on the sleep norms and various meta-analyses of sleep data during development of S+ by ResMed.

We have not reconstituted the Zeo platform. However, we are planning to offer a unique program to former Zeo customers (available in the US initially) so that they can build new data quickly and easily with S+. In the meantime, we love the vision that you and the QS movement have shown and want to do all we can to support healthy sleep.

Best wishes,
Colin.