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smart health connected sleep monitoring: 2020 comparison and buying guide for smart health connected bracelets, hypnosis masks, sensors under mattresses or light therapy.

smart health connected sleep monitoring: 2020 comparison and buying guide

Today we continue the special series good resolutions. Next, sport in virtual reality to stay in shape, let's take a look at restful rest.

With smart health connected objects, there are now many ways to analyze our sleep and improve its quality. Whether with a bracelet, a mat to slide under the mattress. Or, with devices to facilitate falling asleep or relaxing using smart health connected masks or bedside lamps with light therapy.

All of these devices will give you useful information and personalized advice on how to improve your rest time and techniques for falling asleep faster.

Here is a selection of smart health connected objects to track and improve your sleep, and to quickly recover from New Years in order to start in great shape this new decade.

Fitbit Inspire HR: the best of the 2020 smart health connected sleep monitoring comparison

€ 79 | Fitbit (USA – 2007)

If you are looking for an effective product to analyze the quality of your sleep, the Fitbit Inspire HR is among the best choices. There are two versions of the Inspire, but the most interesting is the HR version, a little more expensive, it allows you to know your different phases of Fitbit Sleep (light, deep or REM). Useful information the next morning thanks to the associated application on your smartphone.

In addition, you can compare your results to those of people from a similar demographic group, as well as to your average sleep in the past 30 days. In addition, sleep monitoring Fitbit learns your behavior over time and gives you increasingly personalized feedback to allow you to rest better.

In the end, a thin and discreet bracelet that can be used day and night to monitoring your health, your activities and your rest.

Xiaomi Mi Band 4: best value for money

Gearbest at 29 € (Official 39 €) | Xiaomi (China – 2010) | Read the full Review

Sleep tracking is present on this smart health connected activity tracking bracelet from Chinese giant Xiaomi. With this latest generation, you just have to fall asleep, bracelet on your wrist, for the heart rate sensor to activate automatically and the " Do not disturb " triggers to preserve your sleep.

If the results are not as accurate as with the Apple Watch, they are acceptable. Above all, the dimensions and light weight of the bracelet (20 g) make it easy to forget it for permanent monitoring of your activity. Finally, its price regularly at less than € 50 makes it very attractive.

Apple Watch series 5: the most accurate, but also the most expensive

€ 429 | Apple (USA – 1976)

Without a doubt the current benchmark in smart health connected watches and bracelets for the reliability of the measurements obtained. There remains the price, which makes it the most expensive product in this comparative monitoring of smart health connected sleep. But also an autonomy of 24 hours, which will require to regularly remove it from your wrist to recharge it.

Withings Sleep: the under-mattress that monitors your sleep

€ 96 | Withings (France – 2008) |read the full Review

For me, one of the best solutions among sensors and sleep monitoring devices.

Compared to competing solutions, the Withings Sleep offers excellent results and above all a real comfort of use. Here, a small carpet to slide under your mattress. It has the advantage of staying in place without creating a constraint with an object to carry on you. Its price is quite correct in the category. Even if it takes 2 for a couple, but each will have their own sleep monitoring.

It is able to collect data such as sleep duration, interruptions, light, deep and REM sleep, as well as snoring, thanks to a built-in microphone. It can connect to the Withings app, giving you access to a coaching program to help you reduce fatigue and improve your health. A great novelty is that it now has the capacity to detect signs of sleep apnea.

To help you sleep better, Withings Sleep offers you two options for preparing your nights.

• You can program a health home automation scenario that starts automatically when you go to bed. It adjusts the lighting and the temperature of the room to benefit from the best sleeping and sleeping conditions.

• The Sleep Ritual program in the companion app will also help you build healthier habits.

Definitely to try before investing in the concept of the Bultex e-bed smart health connected mattress. Withings Sleep is a product adapted to learn and understand how your sleep goes. Without being a quick fix, it correctly analyzes your sleep and gives good ideas for better sleep.

Hypnos: a smart health connected mask for self-falling asleep

€ 199 | Dreaminzzz (France – 2015) – innovation prize Foire de Paris 2017

The light self hypnosis mask works in three ways: audio, visual and vibration. Download the app on your smartphone, plug in your personal headphones and put on the mask. Then let yourself be guided by the voice and the atmosphere as well as the lights and the vibrations of the mask. Another advantage, no WiFi connection, but only Bluetooth.

Dreaminzzz Hypnos helps you fall asleep faster. But also decreases your stress. It is also very useful for taking a short and effective nap or resting on an airplane.

I think we could do the same thing with an augmented reality headset, but the advantage of this product is its comfort perfectly adapted to fall asleep with. Its defect is a high price, for functions which are certainly effective but limited.

Luuna: Sleep mask with real-time musical creation

149 € | Entertech (China -2018)

A concept that is similar to Hypnos, but less so. Indeed, this mask allows to hide the surrounding light and to diffuse a soothing music. It is the only smart health connected mask with biological feedback of personalized relaxing music. In short, with the companion application, it plays music (randomly selected?).

But, a sleep mask and your smartphone's headphones will do just as well. Its only advantage is to avoid having headphones in your ears when you fall asleep.

Homni: light therapy for falling asleep at Terraillon

119 € | Terraillon (France – 1908) | 2017 Innovation Award (Bronze)

The Homni is a smart health connected bedside lamp that makes it easier to fall asleep as well as wake up. It uses a set of sounds and lights designed in collaboration with the European Sleep Center to simulate dawn and dusk.

In addition, theHomni is equipped with sensors which analyze the environment of your room (temperature, humidity, sound level, brightness) and ensure with the companion application a monitoring of sleep (duration, cycles and body movements).

Comparative smart health connected sleep monitoring: sleeptracking only available in the USA

• ResMed S + By Personal Sleep Solution under $ 65. The S + is a large enough device that sits on your bedside table to track your sleep – and nothing is under your mattress. Rather, it uses sonar, and these ultrasonic pulses can see directly through your blanket (and pajamas) to monitoring the movement of your chest while you breathe through the various stages of sleep. Or, at least, that’s the idea. Not always very precise when it comes to capturing movement. But he's a great sleep coach, who takes into account your arousal (caffeine) intake and your stress level. It also has the “Relax to Sleep” function, which synchronizes a sound with your breathing rate to help you relax.

• Seleepcore Max at 119 €

• Beautyrest Sleeptracker monitoring at $ 179, to put it simply Withings Sleep in simpler, but more expensive and with subscription (( see the full presentation).

What are the different types of dedicated sleep monitors?

The most common: smart health connected bracelets

Older fitness trackers used wrist movement to track sleep, but now it's all about monitoring heart rate – and companies like Fitbit and Withings Review your pulse during sleep to make assumptions not only on the duration, but also on the stage of sleep in which you are.

This means recording the amounts of light, depth, REM sleep and waking time, which can help decipher how you can feel more rested.

As you can imagine, it's extremely handy for saving what you feel when you wake up. If you don't feel rested, you can see if that matches the amount of deep sleep you have saved, for example. Do you remember half waking up a lot during the night? Check the app to wear or the companion app in the morning and you will be able to see how many times you woke up suddenly and how long you spent awake in total.

Over time, depending on the ecosystem you belong to, these sleep reports should help you profile your nights and help you understand how much sleep you need, or things like when you sleep. have to relax before bed.

The best sleep tracking bracelets:

1. Fitbit Inspire

2. Xiaomi Mi band 4

3. Apple Watch series 5

But also smart health connected lamps, light therapy, masks and carpets under mattresses

However, it's not the only way to get information about your sleep stages – there are also sleep monitors that sit on your bedside table and use echolocation to track your breathing patterns, as well only monitors that slip under your mattress and use built-in sensors to capture your sleep stages.

All methods have their pros and cons, so read on to explore them more.

Sleep cycles and phases

To understand what the Beautyrest Sleeptracker, you should know that our sleep is composed of several cycles between 3 and 5), of about 90 minutes which will thus follow one another during the night. Each cycle is divided into 4 different phases (or stages):

1. Falling asleep

2. Slow light sleep

3. Deep slow sleep

4. REM or REM sleep which normally ends each cycle.

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