Sleep Number 360 i10 Smart Bed Review

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The growth of technology and its related applications have grown in leaps and bounds within the last decade, introducing new concepts to the sleep industry to help you get a better night’s sleep. The complaints of too soft, too hard, and bickering over a partner’s mattress preferences are things of the past due to innovative materials and features that are geared towards individual comfort.

The Sleep Number Company has been dabbling in personalized comfort for quite a few years now, and some of their most recent bed models are pretty high tech indeed! This Smart Bed is no exception and has quite a few amazing features worth paying close attention to. Read on below for a comprehensive Sleep Number i10 bed review to see if this series is worth taking a closer look at.

About the Company

In 1987 the founders of Sleep Number decided that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the mattress industry was unrealistic and set out to create a mattress that was wholly customizable, and adjustable to work with various body types. Their patented Sleep Number design allows each sleeper to individually adjust their own sleep area to best fit their needs for support, spinal alignment, and pressure point reduction.

Through the years the company has applied more advanced technologies to their designs to create even more benefits for their customers to take advantage of. With a wide range of mattresses, children’s beds, adjustable bases, pillows, and even temperature balancing bedding, the company pays particular attention to detail when it comes to your sleep needs.

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Quick Run Down of the i10 Smart Bed

Sleep Number offers classic, performance, and innovative bed designs to fit both budgets, and sleep needs of their many customers. The i10 is the top of the line bed offered in their Innovative Smart Bed series and provides maximum pressure relief, cooling, and overall support to those looking for a way to customize and track their sleep experience.

Defined by their famous Sleep Number adjustments, the Innovative bed choices also incorporate the best technology the company has to offer. This provides smart tracking of sleep cycles, breathing, movements, and can even automatically adjust through the night. The use of an app allows you to monitor sleep patterns to make adjustments to your Sleep Number, and find the best comfort possible.

Features & Benefits

Sleep Number Smart Beds have quite a few features that you may want to pay attention to in relation to how it may affect your sleep experience. From bed size options, including split mattress choice, to a SleepIQ score for tracking purposes, you’ll want to have a working understanding of the bed itself in order to determine if it is a good fit for you.

Size Options

The mattress itself is available in a Queen, King, or California King size, with the Queen providing options for single, or dual sleepers depending on if you have a partner or not sleeping with you. Each mattress has two (or one under queen options) air chambers that can be adjusted to your unique sleep number (explained below).

Mattress Layering Design

The Sleep Number i10 review yielded a 13-inch mattress profile- the highest in the series. This is a great option for top-notch support when a thinner option just won’t do and are looking for maximum plush surface support. Thinner, more firm options are available within the series as well. Covered with a plush, flexible cover made from an 83% polyester, 16% polypropylene, and 1% elastin materials, it provides a breathable surface that wipes clean easily when needed and moves with your body through the night.

The 7-inch comfort layer includes 2 different types of foam to provide airflow and pressure relief. The patented ThermaLux foam help regulate your body temperature to move heat away from your body and release it, while the patented Ergonomic foam flexes and contours to your body weight and shape.

These foam layers sit above the air chambers that are controlled through your remote, or app, to fit your own needs. These set themselves to your unique sleep number- more of which will be explained below. These layers allow for automatic adjustments through the night, as well as a snore support response. A one-inch base pad can be found along the bottom and serves as a cushioned protection of the air chambers.

Responsive Air Technology w/ Dual Comfort Options

Sleep Number was made famous with their approach to mattresses through the addition of air chambers which you can fill, or deflate, to meet the specific needs of your body type. The name Sleep Number comes from the personalized number required for you (between one and one hundred)- which you determine through measurements provided in their stores, or through trial and error at home. Unless you purchase a queen size with only one air chamber, there are two separate chambers to provide individual dual control for partnered sleepers.

The i10 takes this concept one step further to provide an advanced, Responsive Air technology that senses your movements through the night to alleviate pressure points as you shift or turn. The sensor in the bed sends this information to your app so you can better determine which sleep number is the best fit for you, taking out the guesswork when you initially purchase the bed.

Base Options

Sleep Number beds do not come with a base, which means you need to provide one (A platform is recommended) or choose from one of theirs. They offer a basic base which holds the bed as needed and has no bells or whistles involved, or you may buy one that offers its own set of features including ergonomic movement, lighting, and even warming of your legs and feet.

Split Top Bed Options with FlexFit Bases

The FlexFit base is an optional ergonomic addition to the bed itself, but one that helps you use it to its full potential as you can also purchase a split king bed for use with it. The FlexFit series of bases are designed to raise the head, head, and foot, or head and foot + heating options which works well with split mattresses to meet separate needs of separate sleepers.

If you snore, or your partner snores, you can also take advantage of these bases as they will automatically read this through the sensors and gently lift the head of the bed to open the airway. They also have integrated lighting for under the bed and can be controlled through the app as well.

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Integrated SleepIQ Technology

The Smart Bed features of this product are due to this advanced technological integration of sensors located within the mattress that sync with your SmartPhone. Both Android and Apple products are supported, and easily download for you to take control of both your bed, as well as FlexFit Base if you have one.

This technology is considered some of the best, and the 360 i-series of beds are some of the only full smart beds systems available in the mattress industry. It tracks your breathing rate, heart rate, and movements, and provides detailed graphs to help explain your applied sleep score. This allows your bed to adjust to you personally and provides you insight to your own sleep habits in order for you to make the changes you need to ensure a great night’s rest. Monthly emails and reports are all a part of this tracking to provide you with a way to reflect on, and see the changes being made and whether they are effective or not.

Health and Fitness App Compatibility

What’s even more awesome, is the app can connect with various other apps you may use for health and fitness. It can read your exercise, diet, hydration, room temperature, and many others depending on compatibility (the list is growing!) to provide an even more comprehensive overview of your lifestyle. All of this information is then included in the reports you are provided to allow for an overview of your daily habits, and how they affect your sleep and comfort.

Warranty

A 100-night sleep trial and 25-year limited warranty are included with each bed, to provide you with peace of mind and knowledge that if something stops working- they have you covered. Most bodies take 30 days to adjust to a new mattress feel, and so the company wants you to be able to discover your most comfortable feel without feeling pressure due to the many adjustments you may be experiencing.

The warranty covers any defects in the materials of the mattress or associated hardware. This includes foundations, and these items will be replaced or repaired at prorated costs depending on your time of purchase.

Consumer Feedback

With an overwhelmingly positive response, the 360 i10 Smart Bed (and series in general) is a popular pick for consumers as the technological applications provide an amazing array of insight to their own sleep habits. People like the soft to firm choices the series offers and appreciates how the i10, in particular, provides amazing soft contouring with a firm underlying support. They also were very happy with how cool it slept. With 7 inches of foam, one might expect it to not breathe as well as other, thinner models- but not one complaint related to heat retention is mentioned.

The app is easy to use with little no complaints surrounding the setup or syncing of the bed to the phone. And the detail provided is a great indication of what disruptions may be concerning in relation to the sleep cycle. As for comfort, users report their aches and pains have receded, and that the Sleep Number allows for true pressure point reduction. It may take some time to find exactly what you need in reference to your personal Number, as well as the aerodynamic movement of the FlexFit bed, but most consumers state this is well worth the time and effort it takes (and is easier for some over others).

Being able to have two different sleep experiences, and also having the ability to raise or lower the head and/or foot portion of the bed with the base choices is a great option as well. Those recovering from injury, or suffering from painful afflictions, liked that they could easily lower themselves into a sleeping position from a more upright one without having to strain themselves.

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Conclusion

If smart technology and a good night’s sleep sounds interesting to you, then this is a bed worth taking a closer look at. The Sleep Number 360 i10 Smart Bed has some of the most advanced features in the current sleep market to help track, monitor, and report on your own individual, unique sleep and comfort needs. Furthermore, almost all of their models provide individual dual controls so both you and your partner can sleep without interruption to one another.