Alveos One: The Wearable for Real-Time Breathing Insight

Stress often begins before you notice it

Changes in breathing patterns are commonly associated with shifts in your physiological state and appear before stress becomes conscious.

What current metrics don’t show

Today, we can measure physiology with remarkable precision. Existing wearables score our sleep, track our recovery and quantify our training load. These metrics provide valuable insight into how the body responds over time.

Yet many of the shifts that shape stress, focus, and performance begin earlier. They occur before scores change and often before they are consciously perceived.

This is the layer most tools do not capture.

The timing gap

By the time tension or fatigue becomes noticeable, the underlying shift is often already underway.

This creates a simple challenge. Real-time regulation is difficult when relevant feedback arrives late. Not because people lack discipline, but because the earliest signals are rarely visible.

Why breathing matters

One physiological signal often associated with these early adjustments is breathing.

It is continuously regulated by the brain and closely linked to autonomic activity. Changes in breathing rhythm, depth, and regularity are often associated with how the body responds to stress, focus, and recovery. 

This makes breathing one of the most accessible levers you can voluntarily use to influence your physiology, if it can be measured reliably in everyday life.

The missing signal

Breathing offers a uniquely accessible window into ongoing physiological regulation. Yet despite its relevance, it has remained surprisingly difficult to measure in everyday life.

Most tools approach breathing indirectly. Smartwatches estimate it from motion and heart rate. Apps provide guidance but cannot show how breathing changes throughout the day. Clinical devices offer precision but are impractical outside controlled environments. 

What is missing is continuous, real-world insight. Not just during sessions, but during the moments when regulation matters most.

A fundamentally different approach

Alveos One takes a fundamentally different approach. It is a compact acoustic wearable that clips magnetically onto the chest and senses breathing directly, without masks, airflow sensors, or behavioral adjustments.

By capturing breathing at the source, Alveos One measures patterns that other devices can only infer and turns them into a real-time physiological signal. This allows earlier awareness and supports more timely regulation.

From signal to insight

Alveos One senses breathing directly from the chest using advanced acoustic technology.

It does not use a microphone.

It does not record audio.

It does not listen to your environment.

Instead, it detects subtle vibrations and pressure patterns generated by breathing. 

This enables continuous measurement without masks, airflow sensors, or changes to your daily behavior.

Over time, the system builds an individual respiratory baseline unique to you. When meaningful shifts occur relative to that baseline, subtle and context-aware guidance is designed to support earlier awareness and more timely regulation. By connecting measurement with feedback, Alveos One creates a continuous loop between awareness and action, integrated into everyday life rather than limited to dedicated sessions.

Designed to work quietly

Alveos One works quietly in the background, supporting performance without requiring constant attention.

Personalize: Alveos One continually monitors your breath to understand your natural respiratory rate, rhythm, and recovery after stressful moments. It can distinguish between nasal and mouth breathing, providing an additional layer of physiological insight. It creates your unique profile, so recommendations are based on your own physiology.

Spot the changes: If your breathing becomes faster, more irregular, or strained, whether because of a late night, a tough meeting, or a hard workout, the system picks up on it immediately.

See Alveos One in motion below, where our team demonstrates breathing measurement during a run:

Guide you in the moment: Depending on what you need, the app recommends short or longer breathing sessions. 

It can also intervene in the moment via subtle haptic feedback from the wearable or a quick app notification to help you reset without interrupting your day.

Evolve and adapt with you: Over time, Alveos learns which techniques, timing, and pace are most effective for you, adapting its guidance as your patterns and needs change. The more you use it, the smarter it gets, tailoring recommendations to your breathing habits, preferred durations, and daily rhythms.

Closing the gap

Modern life places persistent demands on the nervous system, yet tools for regulation remain fragmented or disconnected from everyday reality. 

Alveos One was created to close this gap. 

By making breathing visible, measurable, and actionable, it adds a missing layer of physiological awareness that supports long-term resilience, performance, and wellbeing.

Value from day one

Every Alveos One device delivers meaningful value without requiring a membership.

With every alveos device, you get essential features to understand and work with your breathing and nervous system. 

Included in every device:

• Core metrics
• Breathing sessions
• Biofeedback guidance
• Context-aware nudges
• basic app functionalities

This ensures ongoing value from the start without a subscription.

Membership unlocks deeper intelligence:

• AI Breath Coach with personalized insights 
• Advanced personalization based on your physiology 
• Deeper respiratory insights and long-term trend analysis 
• Integrations with Apple Health and Google Health Secure cloud backup and extended data history 

Our commitment is to remain transparent about what features are free and what require membership, ensuring that core functionalities stay accessible while funding the development of advanced AI-driven insights. 

Designed to disappear

Alveos One is made to feel effortless to wear and simple to trust. Its shape is inspired by the Finnish archipelago. Smooth shoreline stones, refined by nature over time. Soft, minimal, and designed to disappear into everyday life.

The slim design and magnetic clip-on attachment makes it quick to put on and take off, so it fits naturally into real moments

Lightweight, clean, and comfortable — something you can forget you’re wearing, until you need it. 

We use long-lasting, lightweight materials like titanium to create a frame that feels refined, stays strong, and holds up day after day. 

Privacy

Data and technology

How Personalized Sessions Adapt to You Over Time

Your breathing guidance is not static. Alveos adapts every session to your personal baseline and how your body responds over time.

As you use the device, Alveos learns your natural respiratory rate, rhythm, and recovery patterns in different contexts, such as work, sleep, training, and stress. This allows the app to fine-tune exercises so they fit your physiology, not generic averages.

We anchor our guidance in well-established, evidence-based breathing methods, including:
• Resonance breathing (≈5–6 breaths/min) for nervous system regulation and recovery
• Extended exhale breathing for down-regulation and stress relief
• Cyclic sighing for rapid emotional and physiological reset
• Diaphragmatic breathing for long-term breathing mechanics and efficiency
• Pursed-lip breathing for exertion and post-exercise recovery

Based on how your breathing responds, Alveos adjusts session timing, pace, duration, and structure. If shorter sessions work better for you, the system leans into that. If longer routines support your recovery more effectively, those are prioritized.

Over time, this creates a personalized library of routines that evolve with you, ensuring your breathing practice remains relevant, effective, and grounded in scientific research.

About the Technology

We built the system as a full stack:

• Sensor + firmware tuned for clean, repeatable breathing signals
• On-device processing to stabilize the signal and reduce noise
• Mobile app that turns raw breathing into simple real-time visuals and daily trends
• AI & Personalization layer that adapts routines based on your patterns over time

The result is technology that feels invisible: you wear it, and you get clear next step when it matters.

Why we built Alveos One

Alveos One did not start as a business idea. It started from breathing challenges, and the realization that staying connected to your breath in everyday life is harder than it should be. 

That question stayed simple and persistent: How do you support breathing awareness beyond dedicated sessions, in real life, without adding friction?

We’re building Alveos One because this is something we genuinely need ourselves. Not to chase trends, and not to turn breathing into a gimmick, but to support real habits over time.

This video offers a glimpse into that origin.

Who we are

We’re alveos, a small team building a new kind of breathing wearable.

Meet our advisors

Dr. Aashish Vyas 

Consultant respiratory physician specializing in respiratory diagnostics and long-term lung conditions. Dr. Vyas provides clinical guidance bridging respiratory medicine, wearable monitoring, and patient-centered care. Member of the British Thoracic Society’s Council and Scientific Committee.

Prof. John Dickinson

Professor at the University of Kent and one of the world’s leading exercise respiratory physiologists, working with the GB Olympic team and elite athletes, as well as patients with asthma, long COVID, and COPD. Supports alveos with scientific validation and laboratory facilities.

Where we are today

What your support enables

Your backing helps us go from an advanced prototype to a production-ready device:

• Finalizing hardware design for manufacturing
• Firmware + calibration
• App polish (iOS/Android)
• Scaling our data pipeline + personalization
• Manufacturing and quality control for the first production run

Make breath measurable

You take around 20,000 breaths each day.

Now you can finally see what they mean.

Support Alveos One and help advance the role of breathing in everyday life.