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Polar Electro Oy (commonly known as Polar) is a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers, particularly known for developing the world's first wireless heart rate monitor. [ 1 ] The company is based in Kempele , Finland and was founded in 1977.
A heart rate monitor (HRM) is a personal monitoring device that allows one to measure/display heart rate in real time or record the heart rate for later study. It is largely used to gather heart rate data while performing various types of physical exercise. Measuring electrical heart information is referred to as electrocardiography (ECG or EKG).
Monitoring of the heart rate can be performed as part of electrocardiography, but it can also be measured conveniently with specific heart rate monitors. Such heart rate monitors are largely used by performers of various types of physical exercise. A generic cardiac monitor has the following functions: A display of heart rate and heart rhythm
Traditionally, accurate filling of the sample cell had to be checked outside the instrument, as an appropriate control from within the device was not possible. Nowadays a camera system can help to monitor the sample and accurate filling conditions in the sample cell.
Spark is an open-source instant messaging program (based on the XMPP protocol) that allows users to communicate in real time. [4]It can be integrated with the Openfire server to provide additional features [5] such as controlling the various Spark functionalities from a central management console or integrating with a proprietary customer support service known as Fastpath which allows its ...
A polar mount is a movable mount for satellite dishes that allows the dish to be pointed at many geostationary satellites by slewing around one axis. [1] It works by having its slewing axis parallel, or almost parallel, to the Earth's polar axis so that the attached dish can follow, approximately, the geostationary orbit, which lies in the plane of the Earth's equator.
Polar Bowler is a bowling video game created by WildTangent for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was released in 2004 and distributed by WildTangent in a CD called Polar Games. It was released for the Nintendo DS in 2009. [3] It was later re-imagined as Polar Bowler 1st Frame for mobile smartphones and tablets and was released in 2013.