The Fitbit lineup of smart wearable devices will soon have a snoring detection feature added to them. There will also include an enhanced noise detection mechanism that will generate data on sound activity around the device’s wearer even while asleep.

Snoring is one sleep activity that could disrupt sleep for persons in the same room as the snorer. The snorer is unaware of the sounds emanating from his/ her nostrils while asleep and may even contest the claim of snoring. However, the new Fitbit feature is bound to provide strong evidence that there is a snoring activity in the room.

Of course, the device would be unable to identify whether the snorer is the one wearing the Fitbit device or not. The feature is currently available on the Fitbit app on Google’s Play Store. The snoring detection feature works by using the Fitbit device microphone to listen to ambient noise, including snoring picked up within the microphone range. The feature is bound to be a considerable drain on the device’s battery, and the utility of the snoring data collected all night looks unimportant.

Fitbit advises that users who want to use the feature must have up to 40% of battery life left in their devices. The Snore and Noise Detect feature, as it is called, will be able to identify whether the noise it is picking is snoring-related or not. The presence of white noise during the sleep period could hamper the operation of the snoring tracker, and the release notes specify that such white noise should be eliminated for optimal performance of the feature.

As stated earlier, there is little that could be done to the snoring data that will be generated by the new snoring detection feature on Fitbit. However, we could expect additional illumination from Fitbit soon.

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Despite the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, NASA still intends to continue its space missions. Fitbit has announced a pilot scheme with the US space agency that involves the distribution of 1,000 Fitbit smart wearable devices to the staff of the agency including about 150 astronauts. The goal of the program is to establish whether indeed these devices significantly contribute to keeping personnel safe and healthy in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

It is very important that the team who make up the agency are kept safe and healthy, especially mission-critical personnel. The selected crew members will have a Fitbit smart wearable device on them, while a daily check-in app will assist them to record vital data that could indicate potential symptoms of COVID-19, as well as several other health and fitness metrics. The trajectory of these vital daily readings could help to identify a potential coronavirus case and mitigate the impact through isolation and rapid treatment.

The data generated from the device, in addition to data logged by users will help the app to identify minute changes in your body system that could be an early warning sign of COVID-19. Under such circumstances, users will be notified by the app to either isolate or go to work. It can also advise on getting tested to have a definitive status of the virus.

It is expected that the Fitbit pilot program will further enhance safety protocols already put in place to ensure that employees are kept safe and healthy and astronauts are guaranteed as healthy prior to any space mission, so as not to jeopardize the mission.

In the height of the pandemic, smartwatches are increasingly becoming important devices that could help to identify a potential case of Covid-19 even several days before observable symptoms become visible. A recent study using Apple smartwatches revealed an ability to identify a patient who is likely to develop. Fitbit has also done similar work, in collaboration with others and hopes the results from the pilot program will help in fighting and preventing covid-19.

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