BrainGear Develops SleePYA, the Digital Healthcare for Brain Rehabilitation and Sleep Aid

As startup engaging in digital healthcare business, especially brain rehabilitation and sleep aid, BrainGear has developed SleePYA with infrared light to stimulate the brain to induce quality of sleep.

SleePYA is not a medical device, but a general-purpose electronic system available for anyone. Wearing a helmet equipped with infrared LEDs, it induces healthy sleep with light stimulation for about 20 minutes.

"People who suffer from sleep disorders and insomnia usually try to get help by taking sleeping pills or changing pillows and beds," said Dr. Kim Il-Ku. "BrainGear's SleePYA has a basic mechanism using light to directly stimulate the brain, giving it the advantage of being more proactive than passive approaches to insomnia." 

BrainGear is currently planning a pilot project with nursing homes and brain rehabilitation centers in South Korea in the first half of 2024.