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2. Fitness tracker - Wikipedia

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   A fitness tracker or activity tracker is an electronic device or app that measures and collects data about an individual's movements and physical responses, towards the goal of monitoring and improving their health, fitness, or psychological wellness over time. [1] Fitness trackers are a more sophisticated version of the pedometer; in addition ...

3. Pedometer - Wikipedia

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   Used originally by sports and physical fitness enthusiasts, pedometers are now becoming popular as an everyday exercise counter and motivator. Often worn on the belt and kept on all day, it can record how many steps the wearer has walked that day, and thus the kilometers or miles (distance = number of steps × step length).

4. List of Fitbit products - Wikipedia

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   The Fitbit Classic was a small black and teal device that could be clipped and worn 24/7. It uses a three-dimensional accelerometer to sense user movement. The Tracker measures steps taken as well as user data to calculate distance walked, calories burned, floors climbed, and activity duration and intensity.

5. Best walking workout: Here's how to start walking for exercise

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   The best walking workout doesn't have to be complicated — use the FIT formula to start a walking program you can stick with well into the new year. ... aim to work at 50-70% of your max when ...

6. Fitbit - Wikipedia

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   Fitbit is a line of wireless-enabled wearable technology, physical fitness monitors and activity trackers such as smartwatches, pedometers and monitors for heart rate, quality of sleep, and stairs climbed as well as related software. It operated as an American consumer electronics and fitness company from 2007 to 2021.

7. Actigraphy - Wikipedia

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   Activity actigraphs are worn and used similarly to a pedometer: around the waist, near the hip. They are useful for determining the amount of wake-time activity, and possibly estimating the number of calories burned, by the wearer. They are worn for a number of days to collect enough data for valid analysis.

8. Dead reckoning - Wikipedia

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   Another challenge is differentiating walking from running, and recognizing movements like bicycling, climbing stairs, or riding an elevator. Before phone-based systems existed, many custom PDR systems existed. While a pedometer can only be used to measure linear distance traveled, PDR systems have an embedded magnetometer for heading ...

9. Principles of motion sensing - Wikipedia

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   Gyroscopes measure the angular rate of rotational movement about one or more axes. Gyroscopes can measure complex motion accurately in multiple dimensions, tracking the position and rotation of a moving object unlike accelerometers which can only detect the fact that an object has moved or is moving in a particular direction.