You may not believe what Fitbit intends to measure in our sleep

June 2, 2021 Bary Howards

Modern smart bracelets are no longer just used to measure heart rate and distance when running or counting steps when walking. Even the cheapest can already tell quite well, for example, about stressful situations or the quality of sleep. In the latter area, it seems Fitbit is preparing several interesting new products (recently purchased by Google). He intends to analyze several other aspects of sleep and the environment in which it takes place. An analysis of one of the latest versions of the application of the same name revealed that Fitbit will load measurement of snoring and other sleeping noise.

The novelty should be logically available in bracelets and watches that have a microphone. Through it, the device first analyzes the normal noise level during sleep. For sounds that deviate in volume, the analysis will try to identify either typical snoring elements or other environmental disturbances. And it will then pass both of these metrics to the user. In the case of snoring, there will be three levels: low (up to 10% of total sleeping time), medium (10 – 40 %) a high (over 40%). The other noise will be five levels: very quiet (<30 dBA), quiet (30 - 50 dBA), medium (50 - 70 dBA), high (70 - 90 dBA) and very high (over 90 dBA).

Since only a microphone will be used for this analysis, it can even capture the snoring of someone else in the room. It will then be mainly up to the user to interpret the data correctly. In addition to quite clear evidence that Fitbit will introduce measurements of snoring and other sounds during sleep, it will come with another interesting feature according to the analysis of the application. Novelty “Your sleep animal”, which can be translated as your sleeping animal, assigns a specific creature from the animal kingdom to the type of your sleep. It can be a kangaroo, giraffe, bear, turtle or dolphin. As is well known, each of these creatures has a different course of sleep. There should be a total of twelve species.