For tirelessly defending their country, the least war veterans deserve is a good night’s sleep. But for some soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, that basic right often feels like a luxury.
Tyler Skluzacek, a student at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is working to make sure veterans are able to sleep soundly, with an application for smartphones and smartwatches that helps to prevent night terrors — a major symptom of PTSD. Inspired by his father, an Iraq War veteran, Skluzacek hopes to make the app easily accessible to all veterans who need it, KARE 11 reported.
“My team and I kind of have a saying right now that my team and I won’t sleep until the veterans can,” Skluzacek told the news outlet.
The 21-year-old developed the app, called myBivy, with a team at HackDC — a 36-hour coding competition in Washington, D.C. Using smartphone technology, the app monitors a veteran’s heartbeat and movements as he or she sleeps, to track the symptoms that precede night terrors. At the onset of these behaviors, the app will vibrate or make a sound to disrupt the deep sleep but allow the veteran to keep resting.
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