An increasing number of health and fitness trackers are now monitoring their user’s inactive moments, namely when a person is sleeping.
Most of these wearable devices, which include the Jawbone UP and Lark, understand that consumers are increasingly relying on this aspect of their service as much as their activity tracking functions.
With this in mind, a San Francisco based start-up has released a new non-wearable sleep tracking device called Sense that offers arguably the most elaborate sleep monitoring functions ever.
Sense is, in fact, a pair of devices that are placed on a bedside table (the Sense) and inside a pillow (the Sleep Pill) that go beyond tracking just your sleeping habits (although they do that too), but also the condition’s of your bedroom.
That includes tracking ambient noise, light, particulates in the air and a number of other things.
Like so many tracking devices, Sense synchronises with a smartphone application that gives its user a score based on how well they have slept and the conditions of their bedroom.
Sense was started as Kickstarter campaign by a startup called Hello. The company consists of a mix of electrical engineers, designers and software experts. Together, they are responsible for building both the hardware and software behind Sense.
Hello is charging $99 for the device during the course of its Kickstarter campaign, with the price to be bumped up to $129 thereafter.
“When we looked at the wearable space in particular, the thing the majority of people actually care about is their sleep,” James Proud, CEO and Founder of Hello, told Buzzfeed in an interview.
“[Sense tracks] how you slept, why you slept that way, and what are the steps you can take to begin to improve your sleep and wake up feeling better.”
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