Best Smart Mattresses

You've heard of wearable sleep trackers, but how about smart mattresses that track your sleep? These mattresses not only track your sleep but can cool down and heat up in response to your breathing, heart rate, and more.

There are two types of these devices – mattresses and mattress covers – and the market is growing. This article explores the best smart mattresses with sleep tracking, shedding light on what could be the future of sleep.

Let's jump in!

Eight Sleep Pod 3

The Eight Sleep Pod 3 improves sleep quality by 32%, and it's available as a standalone mattress or as a mattress cover, letting you retrofit Eight Sleep's technology to your current mattress for a lower price.

Unfortunately, only the Pod 3 cover is available in the UK, but that's no bad thing because it lets you specify any mattress to save money.

So, what can the Pod 3 cover do?

The Pod 3 is a sleep tracker and sleep improver all-in-one. It tracks your breathing, movements, and heart rate on each side of the bed and crunches that data into session reports that provide insight into your sleep.

Each side of the Pod 3 can cool or heat to 12°or -43°C, giving you and your partner an optimised sleep experience, and both sides have separate vibration motors, letting you set customised gentle alarms.

Our favourite feature is Temperature Autopilot, which automatically adjusts the cover temperature to your body. The free mobile app (iOS/Android) is also excellent, providing detailed data on sleep stages and letting you integrate health trackers to understand how your daytime activities affect your sleep.

Sleep Number 360 c2 Smart Bed

The Sleep Number 360 c2 Smart Bed is available as a standalone mattress or with a bed frame. The mattress can automatically adjust the firmness on each side, transforming comfort levels for two people.

The way it works is simple – the mattress has air chambers and a pump, with the air automatically pumped in to inflate and deflate it. 

You set a 'Sleep Number' in the app, which is the firmness level. The most common Sleep Number is in the 35-40 range (soft to medium), but you can adjust it to 100 (very firm) to suit your requirements.

The c2 mattress tracks your movements, heart rate, and breathing, compiling data into 'SleepIQ' reports. You can see sleep duration, time spent in sleep stages, and access sleep tips in the app to improve your scores.

Overall, this mattress is an exciting product, able to adjust firmness automatically thanks to air chambers and a pump. It comes with a 100-night trial.

ReST 5-Zone Smart Bed

The ReST 5-Zone Smart Bed is even more advanced than the Sleep Number 360, with 2,560,000 manual firmness combinations versus the c2's 20. It, too, automatically adjusts firmness levels, and you can lock firmness in zones.

This is the ultimate mattress if you want complete control over sleeping zones because it lets you set firmness levels for your head, shoulders, lumbar, hips, and legs.

You can also lock firmness levels for sleep positions, and the mattress will adjust in real-time as you sleep to provide optimal support.

The mattress boasts 'limitless' firmness combinations thanks to over two million options, and the app has several pre-sets to choose from. You can change sleep modes quickly, and the mattress is compatible with any adjustable base.

Sleep tracking is provided by ReST's patented AI technology, NightVision. It measures your respiratory rate and movement, crunching data into a ReST Score which rates your sleep on a scale of 0-100 (with 100 being perfect).

We love how NightVision tracks breaths per minute – handy for people with apnea – and the REM analysis is the best in the business.

Are smart beds worth it?

This is a brilliant smart mattress, but it'll cost you over $5,000 for a Queen and over $8,000 for a Split King. Still, they say you can't put a price on good sleep!

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