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While I typically spend enough hours _in_ bed, I know that I rarely sleep well for most of those hours. Since it is difficult to improve something you cant measure, I looked into sleep tracking options for my iPhone to identify how much of the time spent in bed was actually deep sleep.
As an iPhone/Watch developer, initially I thought that Apple might add the functionality into the Apple Watch or provide an API that a developer could use to build a sleep monitor. I soon realized that the Watch would run out of power in 6 hours if it tried to record continuous heart rate and movement measurements. Since I try to sleep more than that (and dont always have a fully-charged Watch), I realized that a wall-powered sensor like Beddit was the only reliable way to record sleep metrics throughout the night.
So I bought Beddit Smart sensor at an Apple store in February 2016 and applied it to my mattress. As expected, it showed that my sleep efficiency was low most nights. At the time, the iPhone app didnt offer a way to keep track of factors that might have caused me to sleep poorly (or well), so I had to record those notes manually. By tracking those factors I have been able to improve my sleep significantly. Seeing my sleep efficiency score improve has helped me stick with good sleep habits.
Today as I looked at my sleep results I was excited to see the Notes field. Thank you Beddit Team for allowing me to track factors that hurt or help my sleep in the app!
Eric Kennedy about
Beddit (for Model 3.0), v2.5.1