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steps to time

‎08-22-2014 20:00

‎08-22-2014 20:00

Hi

Does anyone have any idea on how to estimate the walking time based on fitbit steps?

 

Thanks

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‎08-23-2014 17:05

‎08-23-2014 17:05

It isn't clear what exactly you are trying to achieve.  But if you are trying to estimate what time a walk started and stopped, one possibility would be to apply for access to the "intra-day" statistics.  This lets you determine the exact number of steps in each minute during a day.

 

You could then iterate over the whole day to find streches of time with zero steps or fairly low counts, followed by minutes with a much higher step count.  (Perhaps 80 or more?)  Then keep searching until the step count goes back low again.  You'd probably want to allow some portion of the minutes to have a lower step count, due to people waiting to cross a street or whatever.

 

I haven't tried it, but I would think with intra-day access you could estimate quite accurately the start and stop times of "walks".  The intra-day APIs are intended for "partner" integration and must be applied for.

 

I have no idea what the qualifying criteria are, as I've never applied for it myself -- at least yet.

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‎08-26-2014 05:39

In response to Doug

‎08-26-2014 05:39

Thanks for your replay.  but I was thinking of how to estimate the active time.  for example if I walked 3000 steps this day therefor how much time "in hours" I stayed physically active? Any idea please?

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‎08-26-2014 07:19

In response to Reem

‎08-26-2014 07:19

@Reem wrote:

Thanks for your replay.  but I was thinking of how to estimate the active time.  for example if I walked 3000 steps this day therefor how much time "in hours" I stayed physically active? Any idea please?

Oh, I misunderstood the intent.

 

In that case, Fitbit already tracks it.  Every minute of the day is independently assigned as either a Very Active Minute (VAM), Fairly Active Minute (FAM), Least Active Minute (LAM), or sedentary.  On your dashboard there is (or can be) a tile showing the number of VAMs.  And the activity graph is color coded.  Put your mouse over the tile to see the legend of colors.  On your profile page is a 30 day graph of time color coded by activity level.

 

Fitbit assigns minutes as VAM vs FAM etc by looking not only at if you are walking, but how intense you are doing so.  Not only just steps per minute, but also the "impact" force of each step.  (When you run or skip rope for example, your "impact" is much harder than when you are taking a stroll.)

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