FitBeat: A Lightweight System for Accurate Heart Rate Measurement during Exercise

Linlin Tu, Jun Huang, Chongguang Bi, Guoliang Xing

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Tracking heart rate for fitness using wrist-type wearables is challenging, because of the significant noise caused by intensive wrist movements. In this paper, we present FitBeat- A lightweight system that enables accurate heart rate tracking on wrist-type wearables during intensive exercises. Unlike existing approaches that rely on computation-intensive signal processing, FitBeat integrates and augments standard filter and spectral analysis tool, which achieves comparable accuracy while significantly reducing computational overhead. FitBeat integrates contact sensing, motion sensing and simple spectral analysis algorithms to suppress various error sources. We implement FitBeat on a COTS smartwatch, and evaluate the performance of FitBeat for typical workouts of different intensities, including walking, running and riding. Experimental results involving 10 subjects show that the average error of FitBeat is around 4 beats per minute, which improves heart rate accuracy of the default heart rate tracker of Moto 360 by 10x.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Print)9781509065172
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 29 May 201731 May 2017

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period29/05/1731/05/17

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