Fitbit to Present Sleep Tracking Benefits of Wearables at Boston Sleep Conference
Fitbit pitched sleep tracking as an additional benefit of its fitness trackers, in a Wednesday announcement. The company will present a study at the upcoming Sleep 2017 conference in Boston on how devices such as its Fitbit Alta HR, Blaze…
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and Charge 2 can be used to accurately determine light, deep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages, it said. Having the ability to gather sleep stage data on wrist-worn devices can help simplify research and raise knowledge about sleep, it said. Fitbit announced new sleep features in April, using heart rate variability to estimate the amount of time users spent in light, deep and REM sleep, as well as time awake each night, it said. The Sleep 2017 conference opens Saturday for a four-day run.