Fitbit Wearables Will Now Tell You How Much You Snore Each Night

Your Fitbit will now notify you if you were snoring in your sleep, the previous night, as the fitness tracking company is planning on getting a slew of new sleep-tracking features, according to a report by 9to5Google.

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The new feature is called the ¡®Snore and Noise Detect¡¯ feature that when enabled uses the mic on the smartband/watch. The Fitbit would detect when a person has gone to sleep and at that time it turns on the mic to listen to ambient sounds, looking for potential snoring.

The system first tries to analyse the noise levels in the room to create a baseline. After this, it looks for snore-specific noise and analyses if it's the snoring noise from the wearer or is it some other noise. The feature would only work in a room that doesn¡¯t have louder noise for working accurately.

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The Fitbit however, won¡¯t be able to distinguish between your snores or your partner¡¯s. However, it will tell how much time throughout the night you spend snoring. The report highlights that Fitbit would have three levels of snoring -- from none to to mild which would indicate that the user snored for 10 percent of total sleep time, moderate which would indicate snoring time was 10 to 40 percent and frequent which would mean snoring time was over 40 percent of sleep time.

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Along with this, if it doesn¡¯t really find any snoring, it would offer information on the level of ambient noise in your room scaling from very quiet (30 decibels or lower), quiet (30 to 50 decibels), moderate (50 to 70 decibels), loud (70 to 90 decibels) to very loud (90 decibels or higher).

The feature has been rolled out in an update that can be done through Fitbit app version 3.42. Fitbit has highlighted that this would be a power-hungry feature and would require battery on the smartband/watch to be at least 40 percent.