Samsung is, although many don’t remember it, one of the oldest manufacturers on the smart watch market. In fact, the first Apple Watch was introduced in September 2014 and went on sale a few months later, in April 2015 in the United States and in the following months in the rest of the world (arriving in Spain in June 2015). The Samsung Galaxy Gear was introduced a year earlier, on September 5, 2013, and went on sale just a few weeks later, on September 25 of the same year. It is true, however, that Apple had a clear focus on health from the very beginning, although some problems hindered its development in the first generation.

For years, all manufacturers followed this lead by adding new quantification and analysis functions to their smartwatches to the extent that today both wristbands and watches are able to collect and analyze various aspects of our condition in real time and provide us with information and conclusions about them. At this point, Apple has managed to improve its design exceptionally well, while the infusion of Fitbit technology into Google devices has also elevated its design to a higher level. Other manufacturers, such as Samsung in this case, however, continue to fight and offer very advanced and complete functions.

Although the basic goal of quantification functions is to provide useful information to the user as the technology has become available the ability to collect large amounts of information from millions of usersThe scientific community was aware of the value such data could have in research. So many of these devices now allow us to choose whether we want to share some of them with studies of various kinds. And we have to recognize that if user privacy is protected, it is difficult to measure the positive potential of using such data.

Today we have one more example in this sense, and that is the one Samsung published a report on sleep quality. To prepare it, it analyzed a total of 716 million nights of sleep behavior of Samsung Health users around the world, and from this it draws as the main conclusion that both the quantity and quality of sleep across the length and breadth of the Earth, if we compare the period between June 2021 and May 2022 and June 2022 and May 2023.

These are some of the emphasizes From the report:

• This pattern was not isolated to any particular demographic or region. Decreases in sleep duration and efficiency were reported in all sexes, age groups and regions studied:
• Although men’s sleep efficiency continues to decline, women have seen the sharpest decline over the past year.
• Older demographics showed a greater decline in sleep efficiency. In particular, people over the age of 70 saw a decline that was almost double that of people in their 20s.
• North America saw the largest decline in sleep efficiency, while Asia remained the lowest.
• Outside of Europe and North America, all other regions had less than seven hours of sleep.

Of course, the message is accompanied by recommendations for improvement, at least qualitatively (since quantitative improvement depends, at least in part, on the availability of the necessary time), for which it is recommended to use Samsung’s own functions and services, that is, something that is understandable. However, reading (which I recommend) will do let’s devote a little analysis to our resting patterns and if it is necessary and possible for us to apply some measures to improve it. You can read the report here.