Jun. 10, 2024
The Indiegogo-funded Sleepace RestOn Smart Sleep Monitor, now more widely available for $149, breaks down the details of your night's sleep in an easy-to-understand way using pie charts, colors, and graphics via an attractive, well-designed app. You pair the app with a belt-like strap you place across your bed. Sleep monitoring can be found in a few other devices, notably fitness trackers like the Fitbit Charge HR ($99.00 at Amazon) and the Jawbone UP3 ($0.01 at Amazon) . But the RestOn is a specialized device, with more comprehensive results. This would be great if its readings were accurate, but since you have to manually start and stop the monitoring process&#;resulting in skewed results&#;it's difficult to recommend.
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Design and Setup
The RestOn looks like a wide belt with a plastic buckle at one end. The buckle is the sleep monitoring device, while the belt is the series of sensors used to track sleep. The belt, covered in soft felt, is flat enough that I barely felt it as I laid on it. It's also very easy to roll up and store away. The buckle at the end is made up of two pieces&#;one on top of the other, like an Oreo cookie. They stay attached with a magnet. To set it up, you drape the belt over your side of the bed, underneath the fitted sheet so that it dangles over the edge of the mattress. Then you detach the top piece of the device and reattach it over the sheet, so that one half is under the sheet, and the other half is over. The magnetic attachment is quite strong, so there's no fear of the top half falling off in the middle of the night.
Of course, first you should make sure the device itself is charged using the included USB cable. It lasts one month on a single charge, according to RestOn, which appears accurate based on my testing. I charged it once and didn't have to bother charging it again for the couple of weeks I used it. A single LED indicator tells you when the RestOn is on, off, or in need of recharging. There is no On/Off switch. To turn it off, slide the monitor off the mattress to break its magnetic bond.
It's easy to pair the RestOn with the Sleepace app, which you can download for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play. There is no need to go into your device's Bluetooth settings&#;the app itself will ask to turn on Bluetooth and proceed to pair. You can then unpair at any time by tapping a chain icon in the top right corner of the app that links (paired) or unlinks (not paired) depending on the connection status. I paired the RestOn with a Samsung Galaxy S6 ($249.00 at Amazon) , which was quick and easy.
The RestOn is compatible with the iPhone 4S or newer (running iOS 7 or later), and phones running Android 4.3 or later, as long as they have Bluetooth 4.0. There are no apps available yet for iPad and Android tablets, though they are currently in the works. The RestOn works with many kinds of mattresses including foam, memory foam, pillow top, waterbed, and spring. I tested on a regular old spring mattress.
App and Performance
The Sleepace app is very well designed. It uses a simple, clean graphical interface to relay details about your sleep that are easy to understand. It produces charts that display breaths per minute, sleep (light to deep), heart rate, instances of apnea (when you temporarily stop breathing), pulse, number of times you've moved, and an overall sleep quality score indicated by a number from zero to 100. It also measures the amount of times your heart has stopped, which is an early warning of heart disease. (Thankfully, I apparently don't have to worry about this according to my results.)
That's way more than you get with most fitness trackers that also monitor sleep. There's also a Tips tab that gives you a few nuggets of advice that can give you a clue as to what you're doing right or wrong in regards to your sleep quality, as well as a Comments tab so you can keep a diary of your day. Factors like whether you worked out, ate after midnight, or had too many drinks can all affect sleep.
To start using the RestOn, you need to set up a simple profile using your name, which is handy in case another family member (or friend, or whoever) wants to use the device. To start tracking sleep you just press the Start Sleep button at the bottom of the screen. When you wake up you tap Stop Sleep, and the app shows you everything you want to know about your night's rest. And that's the RestOn's biggest problem. The need to manually start and stop the tracking each and every time you go to sleep means that your results are going to be inaccurate by minutes, if not hours. And if you're just lying in bed awake, the RestOn won't know the difference.
Several devices, like the Fitbit Charge HR and the Misfit Flash ($74.99 at Amazon) , can detect sleep automatically. That a dedicated device can't also do this a big disappointment. It's especially annoying since the app takes its time doing everything&#;connecting, disconnecting, booting up&#;that having to Stop Sleep then wait for it to load is a nuisance. And if you're in a big rush and you just get up and take your with you without halting the sleep monitoring, then your sleep report for the night is scrapped; you can't go in later and enter the time you woke up.
I compared the RestOn's findings with those from the Fitbit Charge HR and the Misfit Link, and found conflicting results among all three devices. The Fitbit and the Misfit often reported similar information, with maybe a difference of a few dozen minutes, whereas the RestOn would be off by a wide margin. For example, if I slept seven and a half hours one night (according to the clock), the FitBit would report back seven hours and 27 minutes; the Misfit, seven hours and five minutes; and the RestOn would record only six hours and 54 minutes.
To its credit, the RestOn measures the difference between "bad" and "good" sleep. One night I slept a whopping eight and a half hours, but spent a good deal of it tossing and turning and in an awake state. Very light, poor sleep according to the app, with little good deep sleep. Sure enough I was groggy and bleary-eyed upon waking up rather than fully rested. However, another night I slept a paltry five hours, but according to the RestOn, the brunt of it was solid deep sleep and I felt clear and primed for the day. It goes to show it's not the quantity that counts, it's the quality.
On the other hand, the RestOn reported zero instances of apnea each night I used it, which I find unrealistic.
Conclusions
The RestOn gave me more insight into my sleep patterns, but that's mostly because I didn't really have one to begin with. Although I appreciate all the tips on getting a good night's sleep, the scattershot readings just don't seem all that accurate, making the system difficult to recommend. I see RestOn as more of a novelty, than a device for those who are really worried about their bed rest. If you already have a fitness tracker that monitors your sleep, you're not going to get a much clearer picture here. And if you're truly concerned, spend your money on a sleep consultant.
Sleepace RestOn Smart Sleep Monitor
2.5
Check Stock
$249.99
at Amazon
MSRP $149.00
Pros
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The Bottom Line
The Sleepace RestOn Smart Sleep Monitor offers comprehensive sleep measurements with an easy-to-use, comfortable device and an intuitive, well-designed app. But without reliable metrics, the RestOn is difficult to recommend.
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