5 Ways for Sleep Tracking: A Week-Long Experiment With Apps And Sensors

Sleep tracking is not an easy business. There are plenty of options on the market, while choosing and paying for a sensor, an app or both is a serious commitment. I decided to carry out a week-long experiment by testing various sleep apps, sensors and their combinations in order to help you with my own results. Check it out! How to find the way out of the jungle of sleep trackers? Tracking sleep is an amazing experience. You learn a lot about your habits and how they affect sleep quality. For example, what happens if you drink or eat anything before going to sleep? What if you exercise? And what about checking your social media newsfeed? It is different for everyone, and thus optimizing sleep is absolutely not easy. Not even for me, although I have been tracking my sleep pattern, stress level and other health parameters for more than two decades through various methods, even in a thorough excel spreadsheet. And let’s not forget that the possibilities for sleep tracking are multiplying faster than the fans of Pokémon Go did recently. It is due to the fact that built-in health apps started to reshape the way we think about our phones – we are getting more and more into the direction of having smart healthcare assistants in our hands – and the market of healthcare wearables and sensors started to boom – around a hundred million wearable units were purchased to measure health parameters in 2015, while it is predicted that 245 million wearable devices will be sold in...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers gc3 Health 2.0 Personalized medicine sleep sleep as android sleep optimization sleep tracking technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs