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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

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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