Sense also features a built in speaker that can play back one of 15 custom wake up tones including white noise.
Sense sleep tracking device.
The pill features a 6 axis accelerometer and gyroscope which detects body movement whilst you sleep.
To use your sleep tracker you simply keep wearing the device as normal when you go to bed or in the case of no contact sleep tracking systems hop into bed.
In the sleep section of the fitbit app it keeps a record of.
Sense tracks your sleep by pairing with the sleep pill a coin shaped device that attaches to your pillow.
Trackers can detect interrupted sleep letting you know when you re tossing and turning or waking during the night.
Either way if you want help sticking to a regular sleep schedule and ensuring you get enough sleep each night monitoring your sleep with a sleep tracker can be a smart way to do it.
However like so many devices i found that the more time i spent in bed reading the harder it became for the withings to tell if i was awake or asleep.
In a lab setting the experts hook the subject up to an array of wires tubes and electrodes all over the body.
That is a big contrast to how the professionals track sleep.
Sleep tracking is great on the sense and it works in pretty much the same way as earlier fitbits with a detailed breakdown on your stages of sleep and gives you a sleep score each morning.
Since the sense requires a connection to a server to function and they have recently shut down their servers it has rendered all active sense trackers inoperable.
By tracking the time you re inactive the devices can record when you fall asleep at night and when you stir in the morning.
Many fitness trackers offer sleep tracking as standard measuring your heart rate at night to show how long you spent in each stage of sleep deep rem and light plus any periods awake.
Features of these devices vary but some common capabilities include.
Easy to set up the tracker and app.
Tracking accuracy is as good as it gets from the wrist and the intuitive companion app where the sleep graphs are held completes a package that makes this the best fitness tracker for sleep.
The tracking devices designed for the masses are compact and streamlined in an artful combination of form and function.
When you wear it to bed the sense will track your light deep and rem sleep as well as your blood oxygen saturation level spo2.