Withings - Sleep Tracking Mat + Heart Rate - Gray

The Withings sleep mat is a great device that will help me monitor my habits a little better. I only have one problem that could be improved but otherwise, no issues and nearly a perfect product! Unboxing: Inside the box you will find simple documentation, the device, a power cable and power plug. Not much to talk about here. Product: The device itself is relatively small. It rolls out enough to fill about half of the bed (under the mattress). The cable is more than long enough to get to the nearest plug, even if it is a little bit away from the bed. The plug itself does not have a huge power adaptor if that is a concern. The product feels durable and high quality even though you are likely never to touch it again after installed. Install: Installation is done through the Withings Health Mate app. The app has a simple interface and provides relevant data from all the products you might own in the Withings ecosystem. To set it up, you go to the “devices” menu and click on “install a device”. You select your sleep mat and follow the prompts to connect it to your app. It is pretty hard to test until you go to sleep unless you have a nap planned. Use: Use is supposed to be seamless requiring no user interaction. You go to bed, then wake up and see your results! Stats that are tracked are duration, depth, regularity, interruptions, time to fall asleep, time to get up and creating disturbances. I was surprised the mat is sensitive enough to track your heart rate though the night (amazed actually as it tracks it though the bed)! It also tells you if you have any issues with snoring. All this data is compiled into a sleep score and allows you to see trends through the week and month. I have only had it for a few days at this point so have limited data history but it looks promising! Extras: I have not had a chance to play with the feature but the app / device is compatible with IFTT so if you have a routine set up with comparable devices, you can have it turn on music, lights, air conditioning, etc when you get out of or get into bed. Pretty cool if you are savvy! Cons: My only complaint on this product is that it can only track one person at a time as it is only large enough to stretch 1/2 the width of the bed. If you want to track your’s and your partners sleep, you will need two mats. In addition to this, if your spouse and you go to sleep at different times and one is prone to rolling around, it might track the wrong person’s sleep results. You can correct this in the app marking “it wasn’t me” but it is something to be mindful of. Summary: I find this device to be great in addition to a fitness device that does sleep tracking. That was my initial concern as it seemed slightly redundant. The advantages you get through this device are more consistent results / tracking, snoring tracking, and arguably better heart rate tracking in your sleep. If you do not like to fall asleep with a watch on this is a great option as well as it solves that issue by having a device you do not have to touch. Last, the integration with IFTT is the last great feature on this device as you can integrate your sleep into home automation.

So much better than wearing a watch! Tracks your different stages of sleep, heart rate throughout the night, if you snore and for how long, how long it takes to go to sleep, how long to get up, and ranks your sleep! Super easy to setup. Took only about 5 minutes! Just put under your mattress directly under where your chest is at night and plug it into an outlet. Install the app and it automatically detected the mat. (Note it goes through a calibration phase that takes about 10 mins at initial setup, but you don't need to wait for that - it'll do that on it's own.) That's it, then just sleep like normal! No bulky watches or straps to sleep with. I tried a few of the smart watches with HR monitoring that can also track your sleep, but I find them uncomfortable and they ended up waking me up when turning during the night etc. - kind of the opposite of what you're looking for! This is so much better. App is easy to use and gives you a great summary of your sleep and scores it based on a bunch of factors. You can even setup smart home functions with IFTTT (if this, then that) like turn down the thermostat when you get into bed.

I was excited to try the Withings Sleep Tracking Mat. I’ve suspected that my quality of sleep wasn’t that great, so I wanted to see if I was right. I was so excited, in fact, that I initially expected to be disappointed. I had a hard time opening the sleeve around the box, so I had to rip it off. This may be a theft-deterrent measure, but I’m not a fan of it. Customers shouldn’t have to fight the box to open it. The unit is quite simple. It comes with a mat, a charging cable (a USB cord attached to the mat), and USB receptacle to plug into the wall. At first, with this cable set up, I thought this was rechargeable and possibly I had to charge it first. I couldn’t find a reference to this, though, so I just plugged it in. The instructions are very simple. Almost too simple, perhaps. The booklet basically covers the installation of the mat and refers you to the app. You are supposed to place the mat under your mattress. I have an adjustable air mattress-style bed so I wasn’t sure if it would work placing it under the air bladder. So, I placed it under the foam topper that I have on my bed, so it was between the foam and the mattress. I got to bed late (this is normal for me). I expected to get about 4-5 hours of sleep. The mat, however, said that I only slept for one hour and 43 minutes. It said I had been interrupted twice (though I don’t remember anything waking me up), and very little deep sleep. It classified me as having a “restless night”. The next day, it did pick up my husband’s sleep as a “nap” (he works 3rd shift). While I could set up an additional profile in the app, I could not assign that sleep data to him. I couldn’t even set it up to a mat device at all. I was disappointed in this lack of feature. I’ve kept the data for now because my only other choice would be to delete it. Fortunately, this only happened once. I’ve been using it for six nights now. I find that I’m fascinated at what it picks up. Some nights, I’ve snored up to an hour per night. It breaks down how long it took me to get to sleep, when I slept lightly, when I’ve had deep sleep, and when I was in REM sleep. It does say that I’ve had several breathing disturbances during most nights. This is not a diagnostic device, so I don’t know what they are caused from; it doesn’t go into that level of detail. My husband has sleep apnea, so I am familiar with the condition. The app has some informational articles about apnea, such as a list of symptoms. It also explains what other conditions might be causing the issues. I find that this would be a good tool to share with my doctor when I see them next. I wish there was a way to export the data to share with my medical providers, but so far, I’ve not found that option. I would recommend that the manufacture consider adding that feature. Overall, I’m very impressed with this unit. I plan on using this every night from now on. I launch the app each morning when I wake up so the data transfers (via Bluetooth) and I can see my results. I would recommend that anyone who is interested in sleep tracking get this product. I can see it would be easy to pack and travel with as well. You can plug in your wrist tracker to charge and use this unit instead.

I liked my old fitbit that tracked my sleep but that means I had to constantly wear a device to monitor my sleep. This sleeping pad is a set-it-and-forget-it type of application. Automatic sleep tracking for folks like me who always forgets to set things before slumbering. Pros: • Nothing to wear! • Very insightful app that helps explains my sleep • Works with IFTTT app for cool automation Cons: • None! Get one and stop wearing silly watches to measure your sleep. Setup was a breeze. Take it out of the box and place it between your mattress and your mattress base. I was worried that it wouldn’t work with my foam mattress but it works like a charm. The sensors are so sensitive that it’s able to tell me about breathing disturbances, heart rate, and how restful your sleep was. Since the pad is only wide enough for one side of the mattress, the sleeping mat doesn’t register my wife’s movements on her side. The app is very robust and helps me explain why im feeling groggy or energetic the next morning. It scores you on duration, how much deep sleep vs light vs REM you had, and also if it sensed any breathing irregularities. It even keeps track on how often you snored too. A bonus feature besides measuring your sleep performance for data geeks like me is the IFTTT app integration. This means I can create a rule that if the sleep mat detects that im sleeping, the app will arm my Arlo cameras to record any motion I have in the garage, etc. So cool! If you’re a data geek or just curious on how well you’re sleeping through the night, this sleeping mat is for you!

Purpose: I typically sleep fine. My wife, on the other hand, does not. She tosses and turns, snores, and usually wakes up fatigued. She also refuses to believe me when I tell her she is snoring. She has a Fitbit to track heart rate. But it does not offer anything other beneficial metrics when it comes to sleep. Then, I caught wind of the Withings Sleep Tracking Mat. It monitors heart rate, sleep cycles, and snoring. Setup: The device is a small mat with an air bladder. The device unfolders and lays flat between the bottom of the mattress and the box spring. We have a temperpedic memory phone mattress. It is heavy and dense. We were afraid the device would not be able to measure anything through the material. I was afraid it would not be able to detect a heartbeat. It turns out that my worries were unjustified. More on that later. The device must be installed with the cable facing out. There is a microphone near the cable stem that allows the device to detect snoring. The cable is long enough to reach my closets wall outlet. I promptly downloaded the Health Mate app from the Apple store, created an account, and connected to the Sleep Mat. The Health Mate app immediately walked me through setup and calibration of the Sleep Mat. Calibration takes approximately ten minutes. At this point I left the cell phone, with the app active, on my bed and left the room. Ten minutes later the Sleep Mat was ready to go. Experience: Does it work? The Health Mate app does allow for the connection of other sources of metrics from other health tracking apps/devices such as a smart watch. Unfortunately, I did not see an option to integrate anything other than other Withings products. I would have liked to have integrated the data from a Fitbit or Apple Watch with the Sleep Mat’s data. My wife has a Fitbit that she uses to track steps and heart rate. We tested the Sleep Mat over the last week while she wore her Fitbit. We compared heart rate metrics from both apps. We found that the heart rate information matched closely between devices. However, the Health Mate graph does not to be a minute by minute chart like the Fitbit tracker is. I found gaps ranging from five to twelve minutes between readings. Is this correct? It may be the interface for the app is incapable of presenting granular information. I cannot believe the device is capture beats per minute using five to twelve minute intervals. I hope Withings fixes this in their app. We were able to match up a few times during her sleeping sessions. We found that the Sleep Mat and Fitbit data did match during their time periods within a beat or two. Data that my wife and I found interesting are the measurements for light sleep, deep sleep, and REM. This information is represented by a chart showing how intense each sleep cycle is and its duration. You How does it know? I wish there was a clearer explanation than the mat monitors heart rate, respiration rate, sleep cycle, and snoring. It also says it monitors sleep cycles but that seems to be a bucket statement for unspecified metrics that most likely include heart rate and respiration. Finally, my wife mentioned that the app did not capture the periods breaks in her sleep such as poddy breaks or letting the cat out at 4am. The app does report an unbroken night of sleep for 6, 7, 8 hours. It also gave her a sleep score of 90 or above for each night of sleep. The app does have some rudimentary information regarding what you need to know about sleep. There is zero information about how to interpret the metrics. I also found this disappointing. It makes the device and the metrics more novel than useful. There is a generic coaching portion to the app. The information is not personalized based on metrics. Final Thoughts: The device is simple to setup, calibrate, and collect metrics with. It will integrate with other Withings metric collection devices such as their watches. However, there is no education or guidance on how to interpret and then use the information. For example, if the pad detects that I am tossing and turning all night, then identify the pattern for and then give me some suggestions to reduce the activity? Is there an article about anxiety and anxiety relief that may reduce my restless sleeping sessions? Am I getting too much deep sleep? What should I know about sleeping too deeply for too long? Is it a problem? How about snoring four hours a night? There just seems to be a lot missing here that a data driven product should do but does not. I have the data. What is next? I do not feel like this product has an answer yet. Maybe the capabilities I would find most useful are not part of the mobile app yet. It would great if I could share more detailed data with my doctor while I am with my doctor. I can do that with a smartphone and a more robust mobile app. I like this product, I like the metrics, but I cannot see past the novelty.

I had my doubts about how well this product would work. After using it everyday for over a month, I’m quite surprised on how well it measured my sleep patterns. I already know that I have sleep apnea; in fact, I use a CPAP/BiPAP machine to keep my breathing disturbances down to a minimum. So, I was curious to see how well this product analyzed my sleep. I also had the unique experience of switching from one type of sleep therapy using a BiPAP (bilevel positive airway pressure) machine to another using an ASV (Adaptive Servo-Ventilation) machine while using this product over the last month. I wanted to see if the sleep mat would detect any differences in the quality of my sleep as I transitioned to the new breathing machine. Using my old breathing machine, the mat provided an overall score that I felt was pretty telling of the quality of my sleep. The score was fluctuating between the low 70s and 80s. It captured several interruptions and kept track of my overall sleep time well. I found that as I used it more, the data seemed to get more accurate as the app started to recognize patterns. There are many components that make up a sleep score and they include sleep duration, depth (light vs REM vs deep), regularity, interruptions, time to sleep, time to get up, breathing disturbances, heart rate, and snoring. There didn’t seem to be any glaring miscalculations on any of these measures from one night to the next. The only time it would present an incorrect sleep time was when my 7-year-old would crawl into my side of the bed before I went to bed. On those occasions, the mat thought I went to bed at that time and counted those hours in my sleep. When I found it did that, I was able to locate a setting within the app that allows for a manual adjustment to my beginning and ending sleep time. After making the correction, the app would immediately recalculate my sleep score to reflex the new information. One thing that I did notice regarding the app presenting the sleep score, it didn’t have the score ready immediately after I woke up. It needed a few minutes to transmit (over Wi-Fi) the nightly information from the mat to the app. Afterwards, the score and its accompanying measures and analysis was available for viewing. After I transitioned to my new breathing machine, I was curious to see how well the app measured my sleep. I had just completed a couple of sleep studies in a lab setting so I had a pretty good idea how my new therapy would affect my sleep. Like always with breathing machines, the first couple of nights were rough in terms of getting used to the equipment. And my scores reflected this. They were not any lower than my previous scores, but they stayed in the same general vicinity. However, after a few days I started noticing my sleep score improving as I was getting more comfortable with the machine and the new therapy was starting to take hold. Certain measures started showing improvement too, such as the number of breathing disturbances and overall sleep depth. Couple these changes with the fact that I now have a way of measuring my sleeping habits, I’ve been more conscious of the quality of my sleep and what I need to do on a nightly basis to maintain good sleeping habits. In that sense, this device is serving its purposes. I wouldn’t expect this device to do much beyond that. If you suspect you have more serious sleep issues, it’s always recommended to discuss this with a doctor. However, if you have a need or desire to keep track of your sleep patterns to provide you more insight in your understanding of how you sleep, or to help inform you when speaking with a doctor, this device can definitely help with that.

I was scheduled for a home sleep study when I became aware of the Withings sleep tracking mat. No straps, no wires, no hassle. What??!!?? I cancelled the home sleep study. I had no clue if this would work as advertised and it's amazing, but it does! You simply place this mat between your box spring and mattress, about chest high, plug the USB cord connected to the mat into the adapter and plug it into an outlet. How could anything work when it's under the mattress? I still don't know how it works but it does somehow via the sensors in the sleep mat. Download their app, set it up on your WiFi and you're ready to go. There is NOTHING else to do. You simply go to sleep and get up in the morning. It knows what time you go to bed and tracks your sleep hours - it knows when you're in deep sleep, REM, or light sleep. It knows when you're awake, it knows when you snore - not your bed-mate, but you. Somehow it can distinguish between the two. And it also is aware of sleep disturbances. It then gathers this information in the app and the interface shows you how your sleep measures up. Did you snore? If so, it shows you how long you snored in total, what times the snoring occurred, and the duration of each episode. How often were you in deep sleep, REM, or light sleep, how long were you in each and at what times. It also tracks how long it takes you to fall asleep and how long it takes you to wake up. And there's even more... With daily weekly and monthly reports to view. It can sometimes take a bit of time for the data to transfer to the app. I got up about 3 hours before my wake up time to use the restroom one morning. When I got up for the day, I checked the app. It indicated that my sleep time stopped for the night at the time I used the restroom. About a1/2 hour later, I saw that it had added in the hours after I went back to bed, and showed the time I had left the bed as a disturbance. It just took a bit of time to update. I was impressed and I continue to be impressed. With no effort on my part, I am able to keep track of my sleep activity with the Withings sleep tracking mat. One thing... I'm not sure how long I will continue to find this information to be useful on a daily basis. If it stays relatively stable, I don't know that I would check it often... Perhaps monthly to see how I'm doing. Yes, I would recommend this to anyone wanting to track their sleep patterns.

I've been a fan of things that can help me understand my sleep. Since I have horrible sleep patterns and routines, I thought it would be a good way to again try to reel myself back into trying for a good night's sleep. My initial reaction was that the cord was too short to make it to an outlet, but I used an extension cord and that solved that without any issue. The other concern is that it seemed to be picking up my wife's sleep patterns and not always mine. I found this by sleeping in separate beds when I noticed the mixed results. I'm sure if I try long enough I might get the exact spot that it might not pick up my wife's sleep patterns and just mine, but it seems to much work to get that to happen. Once that was resolved, I can say with much certainty that this product works well to help you understand what you are doing in your sleep. I had been thinking of putting up a camera and see how much flipping and stuff, and if I could see if I was snoring (mouth open) but realized that is a bit difficult and I would not be happy seeing myself sleep. The information I got seems to concur with what I already believed was happening, with some surprises, like how many minutes it took me to wake up, and also sleep disturbances - I know this isn't a medical sleep study, but it gives you an idea of how things are going without doing an expensive sleep study. Would I recommend this? Yes, absolutely. Even if you need to sleep in a separate bed for a few nights to understand how your sleep is going, it would be worth it to figure out how to make your sleep time be more productive. I'm of the opinion that tools like this can really help get you back on track and try to make positive life changes to improve your life. Life is too short anyway, making the most of it and not feeling tired as often is the way to go! I'll be trying this with other family members in m house so they can understand their sleep issues - and maybe help get them on track while they are younger (20's). I would like a longer cord for a next gen product, and also a way to incorporate a mat that is for two people who share a bed, with their own stats, even if it meant wearing a bracelet or something that would tell the mat who was who and on which side of the bed.