Review & review of smart health connected sleep sensor

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Nokia has a wide range of health-oriented smart health connected objects. Today we Review the Nokia Sleep, a high-tech sleep sensor at less than 100 €.

Prices and specifications

For an amount of € 99.95, the Finnish Nokia seeks to offer us a sleep sensor as complete as possible. The company – which bought Withings two years ago – is leveraging its know-how in smart health connected health to provide equipment that not only tracks the quality of sleep, but also controls our smart health connected homes. An entire program !

The Nokia Sleep is like a strip of cloth 637 x 190 x 5 mm and weighing 350 grams. The set is loaded with sensors as well as a WiFi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity. The Nokia Sleep, when placed under the mattress, can detect the following variables:

  • Sleep cycle: light, paradoxical, deep

  • snoring

  • Heartbeat

  • Waking and falling asleep phases

Best of all, the sleep sensor is compatible with the free IFTTT service. You can control your smart health connected lighting or your heating according to your sleep habits. Pretty nice! It remains to be seen whether the promises on paper are valid in reality.

Setting up the Nokia Sleep

As always with Nokia / Withings smart health connected objects, the first configuration passes like a letter to the Post Office. All steps are clearly indicated in the application. Just place the sensor under your mattress, above the bed frame. Whether it is wood slats or stretched canvas does not change anything, it will calibrate itself once the first configuration is complete.

Bluetooth 4.0 is only used during this step. WiFi then takes over to communicate with the Nokia and IFTTT application. During automatic calibration, the Nokia Sleep emits a purr for about 5 to 10 minutes. Do not put extra weight on the mattress at this time to avoid distorting the results. Once all that in place – count a quarter of an hour – you will only have to sleep in a classic way, the sensor being forgotten.

The only small flaw comes from the cable that hangs on the side. If like me your wall outlet is far enough, it will provide an extension and avoid getting your feet in the said cable in the middle of the night. It should be noted that it is rather thick and braided in order to increase its resistance.

Nokia Health Mate app

Compatibility: Android 5.0+ and iOS 10+

Review device: Huawei P9 with Android 7.0 Nougat

For configuration and data collection, use the Nokia Health Mate application. I had the opportunity to discover it at the time of the Withings Steel HR. The purchase by Nokia will have left traces: Health Mate has been totally revised with a more modern interface.

We find some bases of the original version, namely a timeline which groups all the data sent by the Nokia Sleep. If you have other branded devices like the Steel HR smart health connected watch or the Nokia Thermo thermometer, the data will also be displayed in this timeline. For our part, we will focus on sleep data, since this is the specialty of Nokia Sleep.

Each night spent on the sleep sensor gives a score of 100. Of course, the better your sleep, the better. In order to help you increase it, the application will give you some tips: sleep regularly at the same time, do not hang out in bed in the morning, etc … Your health will thank you! Every week, a report of your progress will be made by Nokia Health Mate.

The interface of Nokia Health Mate is quite nice. It is modern, the information is quickly accessible. On the other hand, I imagine that it becomes quickly clutter once we associate several devices of the brand to the same smartphone …

Accuracy of readings

Sleep tracking is not new in the tech field. For years, activity trackers and other smart health connected watches have been able to track our nights more or less accurately. This is not their main goal, however, unlike the Nokia Sleep. The latter is dedicated to that. But does he do it well?

It is always difficult to check the validity of the sleep data. During my little week of testing, the Nokia Sleep will have done well. The hours of sleep and waking are consistent. And unlike most trackers I have tested in recent years, the Nokia Sleep is able to spot when I get up in the middle of the night.

More impressive, the sleep sensor is able to establish a heart rate monitoring through the mattress. To ensure accuracy, I wore a Fitbit Ionic coach watch with a heart rate sensor. The readings were almost similar. Bluffing!

Finally, the Nokia Sleep is able to pick up periods of humming. Again, I had to rely on an outdoor sensor: my sweet and tender wife … She confirmed me that I had snoring at the same hours as those given by the sleep sensor. Which sometimes explains his bad mood in the morning (to my wife, the sensor is always in a good mood)!

Joking aside, the Nokia Sleep seems very specific in its field. It impresses even by raising the heart rate and snoring through the mattress, all precisely. There was only one time he showed me strange results, cutting data capture in the middle of sleep. Apart from this little quack, the sleep sensor will have ensured its task brilliantly.

health home automation management via IFTTT

Another advantage of the Nokia Sleep: health home automation management with the free IFTTT service. If this is not its primary function, the sensor can be useful as part of a smart health connected health home. The application allows you to create scenarios such as turning off the lights when you go to bed or up the thermostat when you get up. A dozen preconceived recipes are available on IFTTT, but nothing prevents you from creating your own thanks to the hundreds of smart health connected services available on the platform.

Not having Philips Hue bulbs or Netatmo thermostat available, I turned to a very simple case: sending a notification on the smartphone when I wake up. The Review will have been conclusive. However, I invite you to send me your feedback on this health home automation function in the comments.

Conclusion Nokia Sleep

7.5 Total Score

Nokia is once again demonstrating its health know-how smart health connected with the Sleep sensor. Dedicated solely to sleep monitoring, it is particularly effective, especially with its ability to monitoring heart rate and snoring through the mattress. And to go further, it also serves as a health home automation actuator with IFTTT. The application is easy to use, just like the sensor itself. Nevertheless, the price of € 100 seems a bit high knowing that Nokia sells activity trackers with sleep tracking for just € 50. But if tracking your sleep interests you more than anything else, the Nokia Sleep is probably the best solution on the market right now.

PROS

  • Simplicity of use: we plug and forget

  • Accuracy of readings

  • Possibility of use with IFTTT

  • Pleasant and easy to use application

  • monitoring snoring and heart rate

CONS

  • High price for simple sleep monitoring

  • Incorrect statement (only once during my Review)

  • Cable lying on the edge of the bed

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