Table 4 Device specifications

From: Acceptability and feasibility of research grade wearables for monitoring heat stress in Kenyan farmers

Device

(a) Tcore Sensor

(b) Data logger and headband

Bittium Faros 180°

GENEActiv Original

Renkforce GP-102 G-Porter GPS Logger

Company

(a) Dräger, Lübeck, Germany

(b) KORA, Hamburg, Germany

Bittium, Finland

Activinsights, UK

Renkforce, Germany

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Measurement

CBT (core body temperature)

ECG (Electrocardiography)

ACT (Actigraphy)

GPS (Geospatial Position)

Type of sensor

Tcore sensor with heat-flux technology

1-lead mini-ECG with 3 electrodes and built-in tri-axial accelerometer

Tri-axial accelerometer, ambient light skin temperature sensors

GPS utilizing the MTK3339 chipset

Measurement features

Temperature Range: −30 °C to 45 °C

ECG Sampling Rate: up to 250 Hz; Accelerometer

Range: +/- 8 g

GPS Accuracy: Up to 2.5 meters

Sampling Rate: 0.0167 Hz

Sampling Rate: 10 Hz

Sampling Rate: 10–100 Hz

Sampling Rate: 0.0033 - 1 Hz

Memory capacity

8 MB

Up to 64 GB

0.5 Gb

4MB flash memory

Data transfer

USB cable

Micro-USB cable

Cradle with USB cable

USB cable

Data format

LAB

EDF (European Data Format)

BIN (binary)

GPX, KML, CSV

  1. Characteristics, functions, and features of selected wearables for physiological monitoring.