How to improve the quality of your naps with an app
Summer, more than ever, is time for naps And the heat and copious meals are bad companions. Whether it's 20-minute breaks on the couch, as doctors recommend, or those pajama and potty naps right in bed , we couldn't miss the desire to count them and improve them A fashion that has come to touch the Spanish tradition par excellence, and thanks to The application SiestApp can be improved and enjoyed much more.A tool designed to measure, improve and make waking up from these naps much more pleasant.
The problem is that many people do not end up tolerating this practice, achieving the opposite of what they want: feeling rested and gaining energy for the rest of the day. Something that is due to a bad awakening when coinciding with deep sleep phases, when naps feel bad. That is why this application proposes to measure and quantify the user's naps and use their smart alarm, identifying the phases of light sleep and waking the user at that moment to achieve a much more pleasant sensation.
To do this, all you have to do is activate SiestApp on your iPhone The application is really easy to use thanks to its simple visual aspect You just have to specify if you want to take a short nap , which usually lasts about 20 minutes, or a longwhich is planned for a duration of about 90 minutes After that you just have to slide your finger to lower the shutter of the application, putting into operation its measurement characteristics with which it recognizes the sleep phase in which the user is.
This is where things get interesting. And it is that, by carrying the mobile phone, either in a pocket or placing iton top of the bed, it is possible to recognize the sleep state of the user. To do this, Siestapp takes advantage of the iPhone sensors (gyroscope and accelerometer), capable of detecting the movement of the user and analyze their sleep, thus knowing if it is deep or light.Thus, when the 20 minutes of the short nap or the 90 of the long nap, the terminal alarm goes into action. Of course, only in the phases of light sleep, when waking up is less difficult and the feeling of tiredness is more subtle.
Of course this means having approximate nap times, always depending on the sleep state of the user, without being able to specify exactly when to wake up before or after the 20 or 90 minutes specified above. Of course, making sure that the awakening will not be heavy. At least in theory. As an extra point, this application also evaluates the quality of sleepo, offering evaluations after each nap.
In short, a curious tool at this stage of quantification that seems to have no limits.An intelligent alarm to try to make these short dreams more pleasant. The good thing is that SiestApp is a free application. Of course, developed only for iPhone It can be downloaded from App Store