Apparatus for automatically monitoring sleep, including a video recorder for recording live images of a subject sleeping, including a transmitter for transmitting the recorded images in real-time to a mobile device, and a computing device communicating with said transmitter, including a receiver for receiving the transmitted images in real-time, a processor for analyzing in real-time the received images and for automatically inferring in real-time information about the state of the subject, and a monitor for displaying in real-time the information inferred by said processor about the state of the subject. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.