INNOVATIVE SLEEP SOLUTIONS SLEEPTRACKER Elite Product Manual page 19

REVIEWING YOUR SLEEP DATA (CONT.)
To best assess the quality of your sleep, look to see whether your Data A lengthens as you continue to use
SLEEPTRACKER®, and as you adjust your lifestyle to get better sleep. An increasing Data A means that you are
getting more restful sleep overall. A short Data A, however, may be no cause for concern if your data shows
that you are experiencing occasional extended periods of deep sleep (i.e., sleep uninterrupted by interrupted
sleep moments) amidst numerous short periods.
To establish your personal baseline, keep track of Data A for 7-10 nights so you can find out how restless each night's
sleep was relative to the others. The more interrupted sleep moments detected (based on your individual norm),
the less restful your night's sleep has been. If your sleep is consistent, Data A may only vary by a few minutes from
one night to the next. If, however, Data A deviates significantly from your normal baseline during a given night,
consider what you did before going to sleep that might have affected your sleep pattern. Factors like alcohol,
nicotine, caffeine, late evening exercise, eating late, spicy foods, stress, temperature, lighting, and external sounds
can all influence your Data A.
After SLEEPTRACKER® records an interrupted sleep moment, it will ignore any subsequent events for a period
of eight minutes. This prevents SLEEPTRACKER® from recording multiple interrupted sleep moments if you should
get up briefly in the middle of the night. If you remain out of bed for an extended period, SLEEPTRACKER®
will record awake moments every eight minutes until you go back to sleep. This artificial data, however,
will not affect SLEEPTRACKER®'s alarm function, since SLEEPTRACKER® simply triggers its alarm at your first
interrupted sleep moment within the alarm window. If you wish, you can delete or edit this data in the
SLEEPTRACKER software after you have downloaded your sleep data.
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