Wearable Sensors

Towards a healthy lifestyle

Adopting a healthy lifestyle is a great way to promote good health, prevent chronic diseases, and improve your quality of life. Monitoring your lifestyle habits is an important step in achieving your health goals.

Track your physical activity

Keeping a record of your daily physical activity including the type, duration and intensity of your activities helps to get an objective view on your activity levels. Futhermore it enables you to set specific goals and track your progress towards that goal. This can help you identify patterns and areas where you need to make improvements.

By monitoring your lifestyle habits, you can make informed decisions about your health and wellbeing. Small changes can add up over time, so stay committed and stay motivated.

Activ8 Wearable Activity Sensor

Activity classification

Automatic recognition of activities provides rich insights in activities of daily living. Activ8 classifies fully automatically non-wear, sitting, standing, walking, cycling and high-intense sport activities.

Accurate & validated

Activ8 is used and validated by a large number of academic research centers and hospitals. Both the automatic activity recognition and energy expenditure levels have been validated.

Long recordings

Continuous lifestyle recordings upto 30 days.

Besides the standard 8M Byte version there is also a raw data version available with 256M Byte memory size.

Bluetooth 5 & USB

Activ8 activity sensors use open interfaces that make integration in third party software easy. Connect your own application via USB or wirelessly connect using Bluetooth5.

IP67 waterproof

Activ8 Gen 2 wearable sensors are IP67 certified devices. The “6” means the device is completely protected against dust, and the “7” means it can withstand immersion in water up to 1 meter deep for 30 minutes without damage.

Biocompatible

The housing of the Activ8 Gen 2 tracker is made of biocompatible material. A biocompatible material is compatible with living tissue and can be used safely in the body without causing an adverse reaction.

Customisable

Activ8 has a customisable user interface consisting of 5 RGB lights and a button for event marking or other function. This flexibility allows for a more personalized user experience.

The build in vibration motor can be used to give the user vibro tactile feedback.

Validated step counting

Accurate & validated step counting for normal and shuffling walking patterns. Validated by Erasmus Medical Centre.

Activ8 Recording Application

With the Activ8 Recording application recording setup, starting and stopping a recording becomes easy and straightforward. You always have direct access to your measurement files for local processing in other tools. The tool has the following possibilities.

Setup a recording

User & Feedback Settings

Enter user specific information to identify the user and to calculate the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Set goals and enable or disable the device user interface depending on the application.

Set the measurement settings and you are ready to start recording:

Measurement Settings

You can select a measurement interval between 5 seconds and 5 minutes. Each measurement interval represents a summary of the activities in the last period. Its also possible to make short recordings in RAW XYZ format for research purposes.

Select the measurement configuration (RAW data / counts or MET values / seconds) and wear position. Leg position for activity tracking and chest for sleep tracking.

Start / stop a recording

Press the play button to start recording and press the stop button to stop and download the recording.

View Activity Graph / Report

Basic summarised overviews are given with the Activ8 Graph and report engine. Ofcourse you can always make your own customised reports.

Activ8 wearable activity & sleep sensor

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