Accuracy of activities monitoring

The garmin connected watches are designed with a simple lens, which is to provide you with information to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. They rely on sensors that record your movements as well as other data. If the data provided by these devices give a reliable estimate of your activity and your data, you must not trust it entirely. Indeed, garmin connected watches are not medical devices. The data they provide should not be used for medical purposes or diagnosis, care, treatment or to treat diseases whatever they are. Garmin recommends that you take advice from your doctor before engaging in a sports routine.

Precision of heart rate at wrist (elevate)

The Optical Heart Frequency Monitor on the wrist connected watches Garmin is a useful tool allowing the user to obtain accurate estimates of his heart rate, at any time. The cardiac frequency optical monitor is designed to monitor the home frequency of the user 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The frequency at which the heart rate is measured may vary and depends on the level of activity of the user. When you start an activity with your Garmin cardiac frequency optical monitor, it offers you frequent returns because the optical sensor is always activated and tries to measure your continuous heart rate during your activity. The goal is to provide the user with more frequent and accurate cardiac frequency data during a given activity.

Although this wrist frequency frequency monitor technology is at the forefront of progress, it has some inherent limitations that distort certain heart rate data in certain circumstances. These circumstances include the physical characteristics of the user, the adequacy of the device and the type as well as the intensity of the activities practiced, as indicated above. The cardiac frequency monitor data should not be used for medical purposes, nor to diagnose, treat, treat or prevent any disease.

The accuracy of the heart rate monitor on your wrist is very small when swimming. On some connected Garmin watches, this tool does not even work at all under water. Garmin recommends that you not use the heart rate monitor on your wrist for your swimming activities unless your connected watch features a profile for swimming activities that supports the heart rate monitor on your wrist. It is stated in the description of the watch connected if it includes a profile for swimming activities designed to support the heart rate monitor on your wrist. Note that the heart rate monitor wrist is disabled by default in swimming activity profiles of some older devices. To accurately record your heart rate during swimming activities, Garmin recommends the use of heart rate monitors HRM-Swim ™ or HRM-Star ™ with compatible devices.

Accuracy of the wrist pulse oximeter

Some watches connected Garmin incorporate a pulse oximeter. This function provides an estimate of oxygen saturation in the blood capillaries (SpO2%) each time the user accesses. The function can also track continuously during the hours of sleep of the user. Some devices also allow recording SpO2 regularly during the day and view the readings depending on the altitude at which the user is located.

Although the function was also designed to provide accurate measurements possible, there are limitations that may introduce a degree of inaccuracy. The physical characteristics of the user, the position of the device when worn or the presence of light in the environment may impact the readings. In the future, Garmin will offer software to improve these measures. pulse oximeter data should not be used for medical purposes or to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease whatsoever.

The position of the device and your movements, if excessive, can affect the accuracy of readings. It is important that you keep your arms / sensor motionless for about a minute to optimize accuracy.