Fitbit could be working on adding snoring and noise detection on its wearables. The teardown of the latest version of the Fitbit app for Android points to the company working on a feature to monitor your snoring levels.
Fitbit trackers currently offer sleep tracking, which takes into account your heart rate and movement. That could soon change with Fitbit also offering snore and noise detection in the mix.
Fitbit Trackers Could Soon Gain "Snore and Noise Detect"
A teardown of the latest Fitbit app for Android by 9to5Google reveals the Google-owned company is working on "Snore and Noise Detect." This feature will use the microphone on your Fitbit tracker to "monitor noise, including snores from you or someone next to you." This could help you determine if you are not sleeping well or feeling very tired when you wake up in the morning.
Below is how Fitbit describes it will pick up snoring events:
We look for snore-specific noises. When our algorithm detects an event that’s louder than the baseline noise level, it performs a calculation to decide if it’s snoring or something else.
If there's any other noise in your room that's louder than your snoring, the feature might not work properly.
Apart from your snoring level, your Fitbit tracker could also analyze the ambient noise and rate it on a scale of "Very quiet" to "Very loud." Since having your Fitbit tracker's microphone on for the entire night can be very taxing on its battery, Fitbit recommends that your tracker must have at least 40 percent battery before you go to bed.
Going by the teardown, it looks like Fitbit's work on its "Snore and Noise Detect" feature is almost complete, as the 9to5Google folks were able to enable the feature briefly.
Fitbit trackers will likely gain the ability to analyze your snoring pattern in the coming weeks. Since it relies on a microphone to work, it will only make its way to Fitbit trackers that feature a microphone.
Your Fitbit Tracker Could Assign You a Sleep Animal
Apart from snore and noise detection, Fitbit is also working on "Your sleep animal." This feature is still in the early stages of development, with most of the text related to the feature being a placeholder.
It seems that depending on your sleep cycle and pattern, Fitbit will compare and assign you an animal whose sleeping pattern closely matches with yours, ranging from the bear for the "Restless Sleeper" to the tortoise for a "Solid Sleeper."
