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Amazon’s Halo band does what’s it’s designed to do

December 14, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Amazon's Halo fitness tracker is now available for anyone to buy for $99.99 (plus $4.99 a month). So should you get it? Unless you want to avail yourself of the body scans and feature that tracks your tone of voice, or you want access to a variety of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Halo, Apple, fitbit, Garmin, Wyze

Why does the data from different health and exercise trackers vary so much?

December 1, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Vipul called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about fitness trackers. He has a few wearables and observes that there’s a wide variance between their results for steps taken and calories burned. He also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Amazon Halo, Apple Watch, calories, Fitibit, Garmin, Google Fit, health tracking, heart rate, wearables, Whoop

Are you hardcore enough for the Whoop fitness tracker?

November 18, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

After a $100 million fundraising event last month, you can expect to hear a lot more about the Whoop fitness band in your feeds and the media. The device is unlike most fitness bands in the market and is probably best thought of as a connected coach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Apple Watch, fitbit, fitness tracking, Garmin, health data, sensors, wearables, Whoop

Podcast: Let’s talk about Thread and digital twins

November 12, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's show starts off with a conversation about Thread because it's clear that it's going to become an important radio for the future of the smart home. We explain why before discussing an update to LoRaWAN and an alternative to the big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, Calix, Garmin, Hitachi Vantara, homekit, Honeywell, Josh.ai, LoRaWAN, OSISoft, Teracode, Thread, Wyze

How smart devices can create a national “health map” for tackling epidemics

March 25, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 4 Comments

As we continue another week of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s interesting to see how countries are using smart devices and services to enforce lockdowns. The solutions range from tracking locations of individuals at the state level to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Apple, Apple Watch, blood pressue, digital health, fda, Garmin, health data, heart rate, Kinsa, privacy, pulse oximeter, temperature

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