A physiological monitoring system is configured to determine a wearer's sleep intention. In particular, sleep activity and potential waking activity is evaluated in order to distinguish an intention to end sleep from transitory stirring or other intermittent activity that occurs in the context of a longer sleep interval. By evaluating sleep intention more accurately in this manner, the system can advantageously defer (computationally complex and potentially redundant) sleep analysis by a remote server until a user intends to end a period of sleep, while ensuring that sleep analysis is available promptly when a user awakens.
DETECTING SLEEP INTENTION