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World’s first Bluetooth 4.0 heart rate monitor will catalyze new genre of smartphone apps

World’s first Bluetooth 4.0 heart rate monitor will catalyze new genre of smartphone apps

OEM/ODM specialist Dayton Industrial is set to commence volume production of a low energy Bluetooth 4.0 heart-rate chest belt using Nordic Semiconductor’s new µBlue™ nRF8001 chip.

That might not seem all that ground breaking at first glance, but it’s a significant event likely to kickstart a whole new genre of health and fitness related smartphone apps which use the wireless heart-rate (HR) belt to monitor, display and analyse heart rate data. Indeed, I can see a whole new and exciting range of training apps which use social networking to support and share one’s progress.

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