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| Subject: | Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor | |
sentinal 10:18 Location: Phone Model: | Hi Stephen, I stumbled on this while looking for heart rate monitors http://www.blatand.net. Hopefully they will start to become available to buy online. A heart rate monitor as well would start to get silly :-) David | |
Stephen 15:23 Location: Phone Model: | Hi David, That looks pretty interesting - be good if they had some more info about it, particularly how the bluetooth connection might work. It could be quite cool to have a heart-rate graph alongside the speed/altitude graphs, especially with the calorie burn information that I'm currently working on! Some phones might not be able to communicate with two bluetooth devices at once (ie GPS and heartrate), but I guess it should be possible on most recent handsets. Let me know if you hear of any further developments on this product... Cheers, Stephen | |
sentinal 22:08 Location: Phone Model: | Hi Stephen, Hopefully some more companies will start to make them without proprietary software with examples of how to connect via bluetooth with java code. I will keep looking. A graph/info page showing speed/altitude/calories/heartrate would be very good. The calorie burn information your working on sounds great. I can't wait to see how much of the day before's pizza I’m riding off :) I'm not sure if it helps I found this site a while back. http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/activities.php Cheers, David | |
Stephen 9:13 Location: Phone Model: | Thanks for the link - looks like that site uses the same base data that I've been using. Its reassuring to find that their figures are fairly consistent with those I've been getting from TMJ testing! Cheers, Stephen | |
max64 8:21 Location: Phone Model: | Hi, Is anything happening with HRM, either with or without integrated GPS? I noticed that blatand.net has morphed into mobimotion. I also came across Zephyr Bluetooth HRM and HxM products (http://www.zephyrtech.co.nz/). There seems to be an associated open source community, but I don't know how relevant these developments are to mobiles. Best regards, Peter | |
Stephen 20:25 Location: Phone Model: | Hi Peter, Their Zephyr Bluetooth HRM device looks interesting, reading through the SDK it looks relatively straightforward to connect to from a phone, probably using a similar method to the existing GPS bluetooth connection code. They don't give much detail in the way of pricing/ordering, though a Google search suggests it might be over USD100, so possibly a bit high. I'll maybe look into it a bit further... Cheers, Stephen | |
max64 9:47 Location: Phone Model: | Hi Stephen, $100 for the Zephyr was the price I came across too. As you say, quite a lot for what it is. Maybe the bluetooth heart rate concept will gain momentum. I like the idea of having as few gadget user interfaces as possible. The smart-phone seems to be an ideal point of convergence. Cheers, Peter | |
sentinal 12:05 Location: Phone Model: | Good find Zephyr Max64, $100 does seem a lot of money. Hopefully Polar producing a BT heart rate belt might make prices a bit more competitive in the future. I guess it many become possible to individually buy replacement belts from Polar. Nokia_N79_Active_datasheet.pdf | |
Stephen 10:46 Location: Phone Model: | Its strange that the Polar belt only seems to be available with that specific phone - you'd think they'd also sell it separately. They must have an agreement with Nokia I guess... | |
sentinal 16:33 Location: Phone Model: | No doubt getting a replacement belt from Nokia would be difficult and costly. SE and other mobile makers are probably busy in R&D, on the plus side :-) | |
cfernandes 1:10 Location: | Congratulation for the software developed here, for what I already saw, is one of the best. Great work. I'm a fan of this type of software and also believe that one day we will just need a mobile phone to do it all. Back to topic. Check also this BT Heart Rate, solution. http://www.frwd.fi/?71  | |
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