Relevance of skin temp variations

[Paumanok1]

I understand the establishment of the skin temperature baseline. But I have not found the relevance of this metric. For example what does a rising baseline reading or a falling one mean over time? How does it relate to other metrics such as average resting heartbeat. for example your heartbeat is going lover over time but your baseline temperature readings are on the rise. What’s the correlation or relevance?

[SteveH]

There doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there on this but there is this entry in their blog:

https://blog.fitbit.com/track-your-skin-temperature/

[t.parker]

@SteveH in the article you linked it's written:

"“Through our millions of users we are collecting data on billions of nights of sleep,” said Sarah Solso Abruscato, a Product Marketing Manager at Fitbit. “Understanding what that data reveals will be critical to our mission, which has always been to make the world healthier.”"

Sounds like Fitbit doesn't know what it is for and tries to find out by collecting and analyzing data 😉

[SteveH]

I agree, I see it as something that's interesting rather than useful at the moment.

[SunsetRunner]

One of those....

"...nice to have...." metrics