Invest in a smart bed or a sleep sensor
If you’re going all-in for tracking your sleep, get yourself a smart mattress. Alternatively, you could purchase a dedicated sleep sensor.
Sensors can be fitted over or under your current mattress to compile data pertaining to your movement and respiratory and heart rates. Using this data, the sensor will tell you how long it took for you to fall asleep, and the duration of each of your sleep cycle through the night.
Smart mattresses accompany essentially the same things but offer some premium features such as cooling/heating modes.
Smart beds and sleep sensors offer accuracy and you don’t have to wear them on your wrist while you’re asleep like fitness bands.
Use your mobile phone app
One of the most effective ways to track your sleep is to use your sleep tracking app that is on your phone. If you have an iPhone, the app will already be programmed onto your phone when you first buy it. Alternatively, if you have an Android phone, you can download a sleep tracking app from the Google play store. Using an app on your phone is not only convenient, but also affordable as well.
Buy a fitness band
The market is flooded with fitness trackers across the price spectrum that come with a slew of features in addition to sleep tracking.
These compact devices track the duration and quality of your sleep. High-end devices will also bring several exciting features to the table such as sleep phases and environmental factors.
Basically, the fitness tracker will ring your alarm during a phase when you’re not sleeping very deeply, which theoretically makes it easier to wake up.
