S plus sleep monitor6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() This certainly ticks the boxes for ease of use, but it also means that your phone will need to be connected all night. All your sleep data will be there and waiting for you on waking. Since the S+ only really does the sensor work, everything else happens within the app. This took a bit of getting used to, and following a few nights appeared to result in deeper, more dream-filled sleep. There are also some more calming options, and all automatically stop when the S+ detects that you’re asleep. The S+ offers a selection of sounds to which you can nod off, such as waves crashing or wind blowing. Using the app it’s possible to see a waveform of your breathing, which is really impressive it changes as you alter the pace of your inhaling and exhaling. The sounds that send you to sleep work in time with your breathing, slowing down to relax your breathing and slip you into the land of nod. It was just like waking up naturally, and since it eases you into the morning with sounds of, say, the rainforest, waking up is a pleasure – at last.įor me, that in itself is enough to make the S+ worth the price, but the unit offers a few more features to enhance sleep. ![]() This worked really well and appeared to become more accurate after a few nights of sleep tracking. Although it will never wake you later than this time, it could be as early as 6:55am. The smart alarm offers you a 15-minute window in which to rise so that the S+ can wake you when you’re in light sleep, making it feel more natural and less jarring. First, it will ask you a few questions, offering up a scale for answers: How stressed were you today? How many alcoholic and caffeinated drinks did you have? How much exercise did you do? Then you can choose to set a smart alarm and/or turn on a calming sound to send you to sleep. Once the smartphone app is connected via Bluetooth, you can hit the Sleep button to begin prepping for the night’s slumber. In addition, it’s accurate enough to work even as you move, or with a partner laying next to you. It actually uses radio waves to track your breathing, meaning that even when you’re under the covers it is still able to do its thing. The ResMed S+ doesn’t use magic to somehow detect your sleep levels all without touching you. Not that you’ll expect to do either when in your newly found deep sleep, of course. The entire unit is well sized, so it doesn’t take up too much valuable bedside space, but weighty enough not to get moved or knocked over as you reach for a glass of water or light switch in the night. As such, it hangs in the metal frame so it can angle towards your body as you sleep, no matter the bed-to-bedside height difference. ![]() That previously mentioned white section of the S+ is where the brains and sensors live. Thankfully, the light turns off when your head hits the pillow, so you’re left in darkness through the night. It glows red when the S+ is on but not connected if your phone is in the vicinity it will turn green, indicating that it’s linked and ready to record. The minimalist design is spot on, with only the the wire with which you plug in the device letting it down – it hangs off the device bang in the centre and there’s no way to clip it down to hide it. If anything, it actually enhances the bedside with its brushed metal surround and shiny white fascia of the box at its centre. There’s no denying it, the S+ is an attractive bit of kit. Related: Best Activity Trackers and Fitness Bands ResMed claims to bring medical-level experience to sleep tracking in order to offer a solution that means no more wearing items to bed or attaching trackers to pillows or mattresses.īut does it work? Is the data useful? And, crucially, can the S+ actually help you sleep better? I braved the all-seeing red LED of the S+ by my bedside to find out if it’s the best sleep tracker going. Sleep tracking accuracy, on the other hand, is still up for debate with most of today’s options just using their accelerometers to detect when you stop moving. However, that machine-monitoring reality has arrived in the form of the ResMed S+ sleep tracker – but don’t worry, it isn’t scary.Īctivity tracking technology has really matured over the years, so the data from smartphones, smart watches and fitness trackers is pretty well accepted as accurate. If I told you a few years back that you’d be sleeping next to a machine that watched over you all night, you’d probably tell me to lay off the Sci-Fi movies. ![]()
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