Garmin’s new sleep tracker gives per week of battery life

Sleep monitoring is nothing new in Garmin’s health watches, however the firm’s newest wearable is a devoted good sleep band. The Index Sleep Monitor gives week-long battery life with steady pulse ox monitoring for monitoring your blood oxygen saturation when you sleep.

Garmin’s tracker is worn on the higher arm — which ought to hopefully make it extra comfy — the place it tracks a wide range of metrics: pores and skin temperature; mild, deep and REM sleep levels; and variations in your coronary heart fee and respiration. The information is then mixed to supply an total personalised every day sleep rating that may be considered within the Garmin Join app. If you happen to already use a Garmin smartwatch however don’t sleep with it in your wrist, the Index Sleep Monitor is designed so as to add the lacking metrics to the insights you’re already getting from the watch.

Pores and skin temperature monitoring provides you a greater concept of how your sleep surroundings impacts the standard of your sleep, whereas flagging potential diseases indicated by temperature modifications. This metric additionally extends to menstrual well being monitoring, with pores and skin temperature modifications helpful for monitoring cycles, previous ovulation estimates and providing what Garmin describes as “improved interval predictions.”

Garmin’s Index Sleep Monitor can even monitor your power ranges, offering you with its “Physique Battery” measurements that advise you to take extra relaxation when the studying is coming in low. Once more, these insights needs to be extra correct and dependable when mixed with a appropriate smartwatch worn throughout the day. The sleep band can even observe your stress all through the evening, and encompasses a good alarm that makes an attempt to wake you gently throughout lighter sleep levels so that you’ll really feel much less drained.

The Index Sleep Monitor is offered in S-M and L-XL sizes and prices $170.