Abstract
Heart rate monitors have become a popular tool, which have been built in many different wearable devices, such as Smart Watches and Chest Straps. These wearable monitoring of heart rate (HR) during exercises have given the user some understanding of the heart rate variations. Even though this is not 100% accurate as electrocardiogram (ECG), its being very popular tool for consumers. The technology uses in smart watches is photoplethysmography (PPG) signal and Chest Straps use ECG signal. The main aim of this paper is to compare two wearable devices to monitor heart rate. 50 healthy volunteers participated in this study by completing three different exercises sitting, walking and jogging. The experiment results illustrates that it's harder to get a unique percentage for the variation between the readings of these two devices, however in normal condition both the devices read almost the similar value, but during the exercises it varies and can be with a maximum of 10% variation in the readings. Overall it appears that chest strap utilizing ECG signal appears to be a more accurate than the Apple Watch which utilizes PPG for monitoring heart rates while exercising.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2016 International conference on advances in computing, communication and automation (Fall), ICACCA 2016 |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509034802 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781509034819 (Print on demand) |
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| Publication status | Published - 18 Nov 2016 |
| Event | 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Automation, ICACCA 2016 - Mahatama Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India Duration: 30 Sept 2016 → 01 Oct 2016 https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=39663 https://icacca.aconf.org/ (Conference website) |
Conference
| Conference | 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Automation, ICACCA 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | India |
| City | Bareilly |
| Period | 30/09/16 → 01/10/16 |
| Other | The aim of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication & Automation (ICACCA 2016) provides an international open forum for the researchers and technocrats in academia as well as in industries from different parts of the world to interact, exchange concepts, prototypes, innovative research ideas and share the outcomes of their research work which could contribute to the academic arena and further benefit the business and industrial community. |
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