review – Apart from exercise and food, sleep also plays a very important role in our overall health. Is your sleep quality good? Can it be improved? Withings sleep tracking pads are designed to analyze your sleep so you can make changes to improve sleep and health. Time to take a nap and see what I can find out of my sleep!
What is it?
The Withings Sleep Tracking Pad is a sleep tracking device that you don’t need to wear on your wrist or fingers because you place it under the mattress.
What’s in this box?
- Withings Sleep Tracking Pad
- USB AC adapter
- Fast Installation guide
Design and Features
The Withings Sleep Pad measures 25″ x 7.5″ x 0.2″ (637mm x 190mm x 5mm) and comes with a grey cloth cover and extra long USB cable.
Setting up the Withings sleep pad
Sleep Tracking Pads are designed to place under mattress so that it sits directly under your chest when you lie in bed.
We have a wooden platform bed that has a mattress without a box spring, so placement isn’t difficult, but it may require repositioning when you start using the tracker. I noticed that my first few nights showed strange results, so I had to play around with this position. For me, I had to slide the pad farther from the side of the mattress and just below chest level.
Note that if you have a sleep companion, it shouldn’t take that person’s sleep stats, you can buy a second sleep pad so everyone has one.
What sleep data can the Withings Sleep trackpad track?
This sleep tracker uses special sensors built into the mat. Pneumatic sensors measure breathing rate, heartbeat, and body movement on the mattress via a cardiogram. It also has a sound sensor that listens for audio signals for typical snoring and breathing interruption events.
The metrics collected are sleep duration, sleep start time, and wake time. It also tracks sleep stages: deep, light and REM. Other data it records are your continuous and average heart rate, breathing disturbances, duration of snoring, and an overall sleep score calculated from all these data points collected while you sleep.
Withings Health Mate App
To start using Withings Sleep, you must have the Withings Health Mate app installed.I’ve been using this app for over ten years and they scale like Withings Body Cardiopulmonary Scale.
The app has an easy-to-understand interface and works with all Withings products. For sleep pads, it will display your sleep score from the previous night and a graph to give you a visual overview of your sleep stages. The home screen gives you a quick overview of your sleep session, and if you want to dig into more details, you can tap buttons for regularity, interruptions, sleep time, wake time, heart rate, and more.
If you’re a data nerd, you’ll love the extra info…
Includes trends when you use your Withings Sleep trackpad for extended periods of time.
How can this data help you improve your sleep score?
At the bottom of each page, the app gives you advice on how to improve your sleep, whether it’s minimizing sleep disruptions, affecting your heart rate, and more.
what do I like
- Nothing to wear and keep charged
- Automatic data synchronization and storage for finding trends over days, weeks, months and years
- Affordable compared to other sleep trackers like Oura ring and Apple Watch
what would i change
- It would be great if the app could help you position the mat in the perfect spot
final thoughts
I like to keep track of my health data. I use my Apple Watch to track my treadmill walks twice a day and my workouts four times a week.I also use Freestyle Free CGM Track my blood sugar levels. But when it comes to sleep tracking, until now, I haven’t found a good way to track it because I don’t like sleeping with an Apple Watch or any other wristband. The Withings Sleep trackpad is great because you don’t have to wear anything to track your sleep.
Price: $99.95
where to buy: Withings and Amazon
resource: Samples for this review provided by Withings.
