CNET News – How accurately do fitness trackers monitor sleep?
CNET News – How accurately do fitness trackers monitor sleep?
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As the “quantified self” craze continues, fitness trackers have us obsessing over not only how active we are but also how soundly we’re sleeping. How do the devices stack up against clinical sleep studies though? CNET’s Sumi Das visits the Stanford Sleep Center for an expert’s opinion.
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Bro I ain’t sleeping a lic with all that dang gear on. I wish some smarty pants would create some kind of of sleep pod that can surround you in virtual peaceful surroundings, and some how induce a wonderful sleep that refreshes.That would be pretty neat.
A comparison between sleep tracking gadgets and polysomnography would be really helpful.
how tf did that guy sleep w all that crap on him
There’s a lot of money to be made doing sleep studies, they didn’t mention that…
Why does this video feel like its from decades ago?
The Fitbit tracker knows when you’re still awake so in the morning it shows how long it took for you to fall asleep, how long you were in light sleep mode, deep sleep mode as well as how much REM sleep a person gets 👍🏼
Does anyone know if there is any tracker that shows how often you get up at night to use the bathroom?
She is cute
If they can’t track actual sleep, they are no better than a stopwatch and a pen and paper.
Before the world ended in 2020
well duh
Make an updated 2021 version please!
Should have compared the results of the sleep study to the fitbit
So, to answer the question – it doesn’t.
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@Sumi Das – you’re a RUBBISH reporter!!! Your sleep expert basically kept telling you how unreliable fitness monitors are at managing sleep, so how do you reach the conclusion that fitness monitors can help us improve our sleep? Did you even listen to what she was saying???
With all that machines and wires connected to ur body u need anesthesia to sleep lol 😜😜😂
I’d sleep with that doctor… Damn
Fitness tracker = waste of money.
How much better is it if the watch not only measures the movement but also the heart rate?
Like a lot of smartwatches do nowadays
Sleep As Android uses an accelerometer, heart rate, and breathing/oxygen saturation. They are looking into a consumer eeg wearable that’s comfortable for all night use.
It also can use sonar for actiography and breathing rate. They also have a sleep device, a lamp, which does actiography and simulates sunrise.
I’d say that’s no small feat. It’s a dedicated sleep app, not an appendage of a fitness band.
Mine shows my seizures, in my sleep. It’s been incredibly helpful.
Ok well this was not helpful. Having someone wearing tracking devices along with all that sleep center stuff and then comparing the data to what the sleep trackers (fitbit, Apple Watch, etc…) came up with vs the actual sleep center’s data would have been helpful.
U left UP out!!?? Seriously??? 👎👎👎👎👎👎
I love my Samsung watch. It pretty much captures my sleeping habits. Gives 4 different sleeping stages- Awake, Rem, light and deep. Seeing months of sleep. data, i’m focused on getting quality sleep everyday. If you have worked out, cold showered, set room temp 68°, 20mins of yoga before bed, you’ll fall sleep early and get more of the "deep sleep" where your body will go thru reset/rebuild muscles.
How can having all those wires, sensors and machines attached to your body give a good picture of how you sleep? I would get a terrible sleep with that stuff attached to me. Not least because I generally sleep on my side and those wires would prevent you doing that. It would give an inaccurate picture just on that basis alone.
The amount of radiation these wearables continuously make is insane. I use to wear one the best smart watches and found out that many times their heart rate and steps count are wrong and was giving me anxiety. Pulse changes moment to moment. And it is easy to get addictive to check your pulse again and again l with these wearables. And can you imagine a smart watch checking your steps, heart rate, sleep 24/7 how much radiation it is producing which is effecting your body’s current and creating malfunction. Do your self a favour and through these smart watches and never wear them again. Too many issues then benefits. Just check your pulse with oximeter when needed. No need to count the steps. Just check how long you walk. You don’t need a gadget to tell you how was your sleep. You know it.
I did a couple of sleep studies and always thought that the (bad) results I got were at least in part attributed to having all those wires/sensors/monitors attached to my body/head! They were always in the way and I couldn’t get to my favorite sleeping position (on my tummy) with them on. I use a fitbit to track my sleep and I do realize that their results are approximations based on their algorithms, but I use those results mainly on comparative basis as in to judge how my sleep on a given day compares to the days before. That, plus how I feel when I wake up, gives me a reasonably good idea whether or not I had a good night of sleep.
So they don’t actually show any comparative data? What a load of old shit!
I’d love to see what my brain’s doing when I wake up 4 times in an hour with sleep paralysis.
I spend hours every night trying to sleep. My heart rate is low. My breathing is sleep like. But I’m awake. It’s BS
well, i would need a bottle of whiskey to fall asleep with those icu equipment put on my body
I could not do a sleep study. I had the bad mesh surgery years ago and I have chronic pain and have a very hard time trying to sleep. When I lay down my bladder hurts and I’m up and down going to the bathroom. So the first time I got up they kicked me out of the hospital around 4 am saying they needed the room. I lost my cell phone and went back to the room around 8am and the bed was not made so I guess they didn’t need the room after all. So using a Fitbit might help me see how much sleep I’m getting. I got maybe four hours yesterday. It takes up too much of my time having to record and count my sleep everyday. My daughter recommended a Fitbit that tracks sleep so I’m going to try it.
I feel like it’s kind of hit or miss with the sleep trackers on watches. I know I woke up for about an hour and during that time for some reason it said rem sleep. Don’t know why seein as I got up and went tot he bathroom and everything. But I think it generally can give a good picture of your sleep maybe?
I just bought and tried Huawei band 6 and I was so amazed how it is actually recording my night sleep and naps in the morning. Like how many hours during the sleep is deep, light or rem sleeps i had. Very cool gadget. For me, it’s very accurate.
How did this great man manage to fall asleep with all these sensors, belts etc. ? Such man does not need any tracker or sensor to monitor his sleep. He is legend
Even though it’s not 100% accurate, but fitness tracker has its own algorithm, and every night our sleep is determined by the same algorithm so we can compare our day to day sleep through that same algorithm, that’s good enough information and statistic to be aware of our sleep data.
I’ve tried two fairly affordable smart watches. They both are inaccurate at counting steps, sleep times and the apps are glitchy. I guess for me, I just don’t care for this trend.
So…….no
he is high on weed
The fitbit blaze sleep tracker is crap.
I can say that my Whoop strap is pretty close to accurate to when I fall asleep and when I wake up. Also, when I wake up at night it tells me how long awake I was during sleep and that measurement is pretty damn close. Now the AMAZFIT watch on the other hand is a total mess.
Yeah, all that equipment looks comfortable enough for a good night’s sleep.
Id have too much anxiety sleeping with that bomb strapped to me, how can i even sleep on my side with that on
I’ll use my fitness watch. I can’t afford 52 thousand dollars in equipment and a trained technician waiting around for me to take a cat nap… My unsophisticated approach will have to do 😂😂
Talk about bad sleep in this episode… Not nearly as enough sound sleep as people should have…
my Apple Watch tells me how many minutes it took for me to sleep, and when I wake up at night… 🤔
How is someone supposed to sleep with 2500 wires attached?? 😅
With all that stuff connected to you I’m guessing the results are wildly inaccurate