openmovementproject / openmovement

Open Movement devices are miniature, embeddable, open source sensors developed at Newcastle University, UK. The source code for the firmware and software is available under a BSD 2-clause license, and the hardware (PCB designs, layouts and schematics), enclosure designs and documentation are available under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY Attribution License.
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how to converte rawdata to steps #26

Closed Humira closed 3 years ago

Humira commented 6 years ago

Hello, I am new consumer of ax3, I really want a step by step guide on how to convert rawdata into numbers of steps.

danielgjackson commented 3 years ago

(Closing old issues) Apologies for the very late response.

There are only a few published algorithms for step counting from raw, wrist-based accelerometry.

One pedometer/step counter is implemented in omconvert:

... but I am not sure of how generally applicable the algorithm is.

A popular choice appears to be the “Verisense” algorithm, which is available for GGIR at: