![]() ![]() But if the tracker detects enough sleep apnoea events it will recommend a couple of tests to estimate your risk, give you guidance on the symptoms, advice on how to improve things and lets you share a report with your doctor should medical help be needed. You can view your data over the last day, quarter or year, to keep an eye on it. I also don’t snore very often, but when I have the tracker has picked it up reliably. My highest over the last couple of months has been 11 events an hour, which was rated as normal to mild, but most nights are symptomless. The data is then presented to you on a sliding scale of normal to mild, moderate and severe. Many may be completely oblivious this is happening too.Įach night the Sleep Analyzer watches for signs of sleep apnoea, recording events as well as snoring, which can be a precursor. The result is a disturbed sleep where you’re often jolted at least partially awake to breathe again.įor many this may happen occasionally in the night, but for some it can happen as much as 20 times an hour, which does your sleep no good at all. Sleep apnoea is a condition where breathing becomes more difficult when you’re asleep due to the relaxation of the muscles in your throat, which can lead to you to stop breathing. The Sleep Analyzer’s killer feature, which few other devices can offer, is tracking of sleep apnoea, something Withings recently got regulatory approval in the EU to implement. The app gives you an overview of snoring and sleep apnoea events from the last night and over the last quarter. What it doesn’t do is provide much in the way of guidance on how to improve your sleep beyond the most obvious things, such as maintaining regular hours, keeping noises to a minimum in the bedroom and the temperature low. The Health Mate app presents the data in a way that makes it fairly easy to follow what happened overnight, and gives an average of sleep scores and sleep time over the last week or month. Those are the basics of most sleep trackers and the Withings matches the data from various other wrist-borne sleep trackers including Garmin and Samsung watches pretty well. They can be expanded for more information, too, such as a range of what was good and bad, comparisons with previous nights and some simple advice. ![]() But you also get data broken down into sections including duration, depth, regularity, the number of times your sleep has been interrupted, the time it took you to go to sleep and the time it took you to get up after waking.Įach section has a traffic light system: green dot for good, orange for average and red if it’s been a bad night. You get a colour-coded graph showing your periods of being awake, in light, deep and REM (when you dream) sleep over time, an overall sleep score each night out of 100 and a rating in words, such as “restful night”. Your data is securely synced and stored in your Withings account, but can be synced from there with other apps and combined with fitness data such as steps from Google Fit and Apple Health, among others. In fact the only minus point I found was the amount of battery used on my SmartPhone without that I would be suggesting the rarely awarded 5x5 award.The Health Mate app gives you a good overview of your sleep data. I have nothing but praise for Beddit as it gives all the information I want in an easy to follow manner, yes when I have had the odd ‘good’ night I know it and when I have my more normal ‘poor’ night everyone knows it but now I have the statistics to prove it. One possible idea would be a second charge port on the supplied 13amp plug front so that the SmartPhone can be on charge so you wake up with a full phone ready for the day ahead. I found with the SmartPhone taking Bluetooth data all the time meant that around 40% of the phones battery was used during the night. Your SmartPhone needs to be on so for those who get lots of emails, texts and calls I suggest silencing them or you will be woken. The Beddit strip needs to be connected to a power outlet whenever in use. ![]() So far everything is positive and the negatives are few. In fact Beddit offers various one line words of advice ‘improvement ideas’ and ‘tips’. It even gives the number of minutes snoring during the night.Īll the above figure would be useful to a specialist to help analyse sleep patterns. Number of breathes per minute and then a vertical graph showing the night from start to end with depth of sleep in colour –in my case grey and blue – with white stripes when you left the bed for visits to the bathroom. After each night’s sleep it analyses the night and gives you total sleep time, heart rate during that time, with the highest and lowest figure and a graph showing these figures. ![]()
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