Heart Rate Monitoring: Chest Strap

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Heart Rate Monitoring Chest Strap

• Constantly monitors heart rate
• Wirelessly transmits heart rate to the watch and
  program

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Watch

• Compact design
• Intuitive interface
• Lightweight
• Water-resistance
• Batteries common enough that they can easily be
  replaced
• Ability to scroll through functions like a cell
  phone

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Watch Continued

• Option to use different types of watch bands
• (one article showed that Velcro watch bands may
  be preferable to plastic)
• Including on the display the time of day
• Ability to program the watch to have certain
  heart rate limits
• watch will beep upon violation of the programmed
  limits
• Inclusion of a type of charger for the watch so
  batteries can be replaced less frequently

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RFID Overview

• Runners wear RFID tags
• Multiple tags read by same reader
• Distinguishes between tags
• Counts laps and records lap times

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Program

• Intuitive interface
• Calculates calorie expenditure
• Maximum and average heart rate for the whole
  exercise period
• Maximum and average heart rate for each lap
• Lap times with heart rate (in graphical and
  tabular form)
• Lists target heart rate zones
• Shows the time spent in, above and below each
  target training zone
• Calculates the recovery time