What Is an Accelerometer Pedometer?

A pedometer is a measurement tool that measures calories or calorie consumption by counting steps, distance, speed, time and other data to control the amount of exercise and prevent insufficient or excessive exercise.

The core of the electronic pedometer is

The pedometer display is relatively small, so a lot of English abbreviations are used, making it difficult for the first time user to understand. We use FITBOX as an example to explain the professional terms commonly used in pedometers in detail:

Acronym	Original word	Chinese definition
STEP	STEP	Step count
SPD	SPEED	speed
DIST	DISTANCE	distance
STRI	STRIDE	Stride
TIME	TIME	Exercise duration
KCAL	K CALORIE	Calories, Calories, Calories
STW	STOP WATCH	Stopwatch
LAP	LAP	Segmentation
ALM	ALARM	Alarm clock
TMR	TIMER	Timer
MEM	MEMORY	Memory storage
LBIN	LBIN	Imperial
KGCM	KGCM	Metric
HGT	HEIGHT	height
WGT	WEIGHT	body weight
M	MALE	male
F	FEMALE	female

Most pedometers work properly under the following conditions

Temperature: -10 ~ 40 , relative humidity: 30% ~ 85%

Atmospheric pressure: 86KPA ~ 106KPA

Pedometer was first brewed by Italian Leonard Da Vinci, but the earliest pedometer in existence

The first pedometer made in Japan in 1775 (2 photos)

It was made 150 years after Da Vinci, in 1667.

The earliest pedometer in Japan was made by Gcn. made by naiHiraga in 1755. In the Middle Ages and modern times, pedometers were not widely used because it was not clear what they were used for. This shows that the invention of the machine (hardware) is less important than finding its use for humans (software).

In Japan, pedometers have been used for more than 40 years, mainly for sports and analysis of walking pace. In 1965, the pedometer officially entered the Japanese commercial market and was named manpo-meter (manpo means 10,000 steps in Japanese). This is a pedometer that uses the principle of a pendulum as a pedometer, uses a heavier mechanical switch to detect the pace, and comes with a simple counter. If you shake these devices, you can hear a metal ball sliding back and forth, or a pendulum clock swinging around to ring the block. ^[1]

This mechanical pedometer has long faded out of history, replaced by electronic pedometers.