Justin Duino / How-To Geek
Whether it’s a smartwatch, fitness tracker, or smart display, a growing number of people have devices that can track sleep. It’s great to have that information, but knowing your sleep cycles isn’t actually going to improve your sleep.
Typical Sleep Tracking
Fitbit sleep tracking graphs.
Sleep tracking with a smart device is pretty similar across the board. You get a basic read-out of time spent in bed, how long you took to fall asleep, time awake, and how much time you spent in REM, deep, and light sleep cycles.
The accuracy of these numbers can vary between devices, but using the same device for an extended period of time will at least give you consistent inaccurate data. However, the problem with sleep tracking is not in the accuracy of the data collected, it’s how we use it.
Based on my own experience and others I’ve talked with, it seems most people do the same thing with this data. You wake up, look at the pretty little graph of your…
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