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Sleep disorders are common among people in the present lifestyle and this may occur due to irregular sleep patterns. The disordered sleep pattens arise due to various reasons and can be prevented by ensuring a relaxed and deep sleep for everyone. Binaural beats are the stimuli that are set to a particular rhythm and generated to get the required audio frequency to synchronize with the brainwaves. This paper focuses on the effects and analysis of binaural beat response on the brain waves of adults and how they help to induce sleep for an individual. This work highlights the results that were obtained by performing the real time hardware experiments accordingly. The head movement is recorded from the experiment using the readings from the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors which are depicted by the angle coordinates based on two conditions, first when the subjects fall asleep without application of binaural beats and second when minimal frequency of binaural beats are applied close to their ears. Using the real time hardware experiment values, an application is created to differentiate the cases of with and without binaural beats application. In order to validate the real time experiment with an application, a statistical analysis is done from the obtained real time hardware results depicting the sleep pattern by performing corresponding tests.
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Rishika, R., Gupta, A., Sinha, S. et al. Sleep Pattern Study with Respect to Binaural Beats Using Sensors and Mobile Application. Wireless Pers Commun 119, 941–957 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08245-1
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