Sleep tracking is nothing new in Garmin’s fitness watch, but the company’s latest wearable is the dedicated Smart Sleep Band. The indexed sleep monitor provides up to one week of battery life with continuous pulse cattle tracking to monitor blood oxygen saturation during sleep.
Garmin’s tracker is worn on the upper arm – hoping to make it more comfortable – it tracks various indicators: skin temperature; light, deep sleep phases; and changes in heart rate and breathing. The data are then grouped together to provide an overall personalized daily sleep score that can be viewed in the Garmin Connect app. If you already use a Garmin smartwatch, but don’t sleep on your wrist, the Index Sleep Monitor is designed to add missing metrics to the insights you’ve already gained from your watch.
Skin temperature tracking allows you to better understand how the sleep environment affects sleep quality while marking potential illnesses indicated by temperature changes. The metric also extends to menstrual health tracking, where skin temperature changes can be used to track cycles, past ovulation estimates, and provide what Garmin calls “improved period predictions.”
Garmin’s indexed sleep monitor will also monitor your energy levels, giving you its “body battery” measurements, suggesting you take more breaks when reading lower. Again, these insights should be more accurate and reliable when combined with daytime compatible smartwatches. The Sleep Band will also track your stress all night and have smart alerts trying to gently wake you up during the lighter sleep phases so you will feel less tired.
The indexed sleep monitor is available in SM and L-XL sizes and costs $170.
