Benefits of RingConn for Quality Sleep

The most favourable level of sleep efficiency ranges between 80% - 100%. The longer you spend in bed sleeping as compared to being awake, the healthier your sleep quality. If your sleep efficiency scores below 80%, the RingConn app will provide suggestions for measures to improve your sleep efficiency. One example of these suggestions reads, “Avoid consuming caffeine or strong tea before bedtime”.

Sleep Stages & Time Asleep

Your sleep stages are determined by your brain waves. Typically, when we are asleep, we cycle through different sleep stages.

These stages are as follows:

• Awake
• Rapid Eye Movement [REM]
• Light Sleep
• Deep Sleep

The total time of all the sleep stages you experience during sleep, excluding the awake stage, will be calculated to determine your total time asleep. “Why do I feel so tired even after just waking up?” Maybe taking a look at your “Sleep Stages” data might give you a little insight.

Sleeping Heart Rate 

Beats Per Minute [bpm]:

According to RingConn “A sleep standard heart rate between 55-65 bpm indicates healthy cardiac function and low load” It is also stated that “a sleep standard heart rate greater than 70 bpm indicates a high cardiac load.”

“What does high and low cardiac load mean?” Good question. High cardiac load indicates that your heart is working harder than usual, which could be caused by factors such as high blood pressure or increased physical activity. Contrarily, low cardiac load indicates that the heart is under little stress, perhaps due to a resting state or very low blood pressure, a cause for concern.

Heart rate Variability [HRV]:

Before anyone asks, HRV is the variation in time between consecutive heartbeats. This means the time it takes for another heartbeat to occur after the last one. “How is this relevant to sleep tracking?” Well, the tracking of HRV provides a direct indication of how much stress your body is under. Usually, when under stress, your heart rate rises and beats at a more consistent rhythm, hence, causing your HRV to be lower. Therefore, the higher the HRV, the lower the stress. How is HRV relevant to sleep tracking? The same way bpm is. It highlights cardiovascular stress being placed on an individual. The lesser the stress, the more relaxed one is. What’s more relaxing than sleep?

Blood Oxygen Saturation [SpO2]

Blood Oxygen Saturation [SpO2] measures the levels of haemoglobin [a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen] in the blood. Normal levels usually range between 95% and 100%.

Its importance in sleep tracking is quite significant. Low SpO2 levels could point out abnormalities suggesting the presence of underlying conditions such as allergies. Monitoring oxygen saturation levels during states of slumber can help detect such issues and lead to improvements in factors such as sleep environment.

Sleeping Skin Temperature

The RingConn presents your sleeping skin temperature data in 3 different ways, using the terms “Average”, “Baseline” and “Offset”. The “Average” determines your overall sleeping skin temperature by measuring the average temperature of the finger your RingConn is on, during sleep. The “Baseline” indicates your average sleeping skin temperature for the past 30 days. As for the “Offset”, it calculates irregularities between your sleeping skin temperature for the night and your baseline temperature.

If the data recorded dictates sudden abnormalities in your skin temperature, perhaps a quick adjustment to your surroundings, such as turning the air conditioning on or off, might help contribute to a much more comfortable and restful sleep.

Do take note, however, skin temperature and body temperature do not go hand in hand. With skin temperature, numbers vary from body part to body part while the opposite applies to body temperature.

So, now you have all this information about sleep data, perhaps we should revisit the initial question of “How could the RingConn possibly help me sleep better?”. Let’s work this out together. Before the RingConn, you were completely in the dark when it came to why you were having trouble sleeping. Lacking that crucial answer to your “Why?” meant that actions could not be taken to directly tackle the “how?” when it came to improving certain sleep habits. RingConn’s sleep-tracking abilities answer that age-old “Why?”

Also, don't you worry! While trying to improve your sleep, you will not have to subject yourself to the amount of data presented above. The RingConn app summarises your sleep data for you.

Besides your sleep score, you will be provided a summary of your sleep factors. The highlight of the summary is the app’s suggestion as to which part of your sleep requires improvement. Equipped with the data and suggestions provided by RingConn, along with your perceptions, troubled sleep might just be a mere memory of the past.

So what do you say? Ready to catch some ZZZZZZzzzzzzzsssssss with RingConn?