Sports and wellness technology company Cloudtag Inc (LON:TAG) are bringing out a new fitness tracker called Cloudtag Track. With their ten-year background in medical research, Cloudtag are confident that their consumer-ready medical-grade device will be the most accurate fitness tracker for monitoring your heart rate and energy output.
So what makes Cloudtag Track different to other devices on the market, such as Fitbit, Garmin, Mio etc? Wrist worn HRM-enabled fitness trackers from Fitbit, Garmin and Mio use optical heart rate monitors which measure your heart rate by shining light through the skin and reading changes in the blood flow being pumped by the heart.
Although they are improving, optical heart rate monitors haven’t got the best track record in terms of accuracy, especially for high intensity training, although they are pretty reliable for measuring resting heart rate.