Garmin’s new sleep-tracking armband lasts a full week between charges

Garmin’s Index Sleep Monitor is worn connected the precocious arm, not the wrist. | Image: Garmin

Garmin has announced a caller sleep-tracking set that tin beryllium strapped to your precocious arm, which could marque it much comfy to deterioration overnight. The Index Sleep Monitor tracks slumber stages, bosom rate, and adjacent your breathing to make a “comprehensive presumption of wide fittingness and recovery,” with a personalized slumber people delivered each greeting truthful you cognize however good you slept, according to Garmin.

The Index Sleep Monitor is present disposable done Garmin’s online store successful S-M and L-XL sizes for $169.99. The tracking is handled by a small, removable physics module that features question sensors and an optical bosom complaint sensor that Garmin says volition tally for up to 7 days betwixt charges.

In summation to tracking your light, deep, and REM slumber stages passim the night, the Index tin besides measurement your respiration rates, and, erstwhile paired with humor oxygen saturation measurements (a diagnostic not disposable successful each countries) it tin assistance you “better recognize shifts successful breathing patterns portion sleeping.”

A thermometer monitors tegument temperature, which tin supply insights into however your situation is affecting your slumber portion besides flagging imaginable illnesses. Those somesthesia measurements besides supply much penetration into women’s wellness monitoring, including menstrual cycles, “improved play predictions,” and past ovulation estimates. However, Garmin says the Index is “not a aesculapian instrumentality and is not intended for usage successful the diagnosis oregon monitoring of immoderate aesculapian condition.” The institution besides says it should not beryllium utilized arsenic a conception oregon commencement power tool.

Other health-related metrics that are monitored and made disposable done the Garmin Connect mobile app see estimates connected accent levels based connected slumber patterns, a Body Battery measurement letting you cognize if you’re debased connected vigor and request much rest. Heart complaint variability (HRV), which is simply a measurement of the varying times betwixt heartbeats, tin besides beryllium utilized to measure if your assemblage is dealing with accrued accent oregon fatigue helping you cognize if you request to code issues with your sleep.

These are each metrics that tin beryllium measured utilizing Garmin’s different astute wearables and galore smartwatches, but lone if you’re wearing them each azygous night. For those who similar to complaint their watches astatine nighttime truthful their artillery is afloat each morning, the Index Sleep Monitor provides an alternate mode to way slumber metrics that’s besides escaped of distracting notifications. The Index Sleep Monitor does person vibration capabilities, but they’re alternatively utilized arsenic portion of a astute alarm diagnostic that lone tries to aftermath you during lighter slumber stages.