Nokia Sleep

Recently Nokia unveiled their first standalone sleep tracking device which is a “Sleep Sensing & Home Automation Pad” named ‘Nokia Sleep’. This pad is placed underneath your mattress and features advanced sleep tracking as well as integrated home automation features. The Nokia Sleep sensor is designed for people who want to learn how to sleep better, but don’t want to be bothered with strapping on a wearable like a Fitbit to their wrist. The sensor slips underneath your mattress and using a technique known as ballistocardiography, monitors your breathing, movement and heart-rate, and translates this into your data about your sleep. The sensor is wifi-enabled which connects directly to the Nokia Health Mate App. The product can also detect snoring. The Nokia Sleep pad is designed to give a frictionless sleep-tracking experience. Once you’ve placed the sensor under your mattress and connected it to the mains and your wifi, it’s a case of ‘set and forget’. Sleep tracking is automatically detected when you get in and out of bed because it syncs with the Health Mate cloud platform and it doesn’t have to rely on you fiddling with your phone before bedtime. The sensor is also very userfriendly and is covered in a metal grey fabric with a single cable attached which terminates in a USB plug that is used to power the device 24/7. The sensor also claims to be able to break down your sleep data into light sleep, deep sleep and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. The device also records your heart-rate while you are in bed. In the morning Health Mate syncs all your night’s data, giving you a sleep score measured out of 100. The Health Mate software also features the Sleep Smarter program which is an 8-week coaching program which takes your long-term sleep data and provides feedback as to how to improve your sleep quality over this period. Thus, Nokia Sleep is a sleep monitor under the mattress. However, it can turn off the lights and lower the temperature in the room for you to fall asleep easier apart from performing all the tasks of a good sleep monitor: tracks sleep patterns, sleep duration or the quality of your bedtime.