Health and Fitness App really motivates people

Health is number one that people think about. People may not act rationally when it comes to taking care. Otherwise how can you justify doctors smoking but advising patients not to or doctors  abusing drugs.

The apps have jumped on this bandwagon. First appeared the fitness wrist bands from Nike, Fitbit and others. Soon smart phone vendors started creating Health and Fitness apps for Smartphones such as Samsung, Microsoft and soon Apple.

The Microsoft Nokia phones such as Nokia Icon and others have all the necessary sensors like accelerometers, GPS and in the case of Windows Phone8.1 special programs like SensorCore make it easy to measure or track physical movements like walking,jogging, etc without draining the battery.
Here  are some screen shots:

The Health and Fitness app for Windows Phone 8.1 can be downloaded from the Windows Store. Just right click to launch the app.

Here is a screen shot from tracking:

 GPS Tracking

More on this app here:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-phone/bing-health-fitness-app-updated-pedometer-functionality-nokia-lumia-630-and-635

The app can also be used with Microsoft's wrist band.

Apple will be coming with a watch that can be used to monitor Health and Fitness soon

http://mashable.com/2014/06/02/apple-health-healthkit-app/

One more idea to locate someone or something in a large enclosure

There are many map apps supported by GPS that helps you figure out where you are or where you want to go. The World is shrunk to the size of your  smart phone and you can pretty well figure out by just a few clicks.

However, there are places where you cannot locate objects/people inside a enclosure by just GPS such as inside buildings, big box businessess like SAM's Club, Costco,etc.; museums, exhibititions and convention centers like Javit's in New York and many, many places.

This Finnish company IndoorAtlas has come up with a unique solution by providing a positioning service powering location-based app.
It is hardware agnostic;
works on iOS and Android phones;
Cloud-powered (what is not these days);
and accurate.

It uses unique magnetic signature of a building (steel reinforced) and the resulting distortion of the Earth's magnetic field. This distortion would be specific to a geo-position as well as the structure that distorts this field. In a way it provides a floor plan of a building which you can easily map as Geometrical data-type. Once this is done navigation can be done with an app that you run on the smart phone.

However one has to get the details of a building's magnetic fields to use the app.

Here is a demo video from IndoorAtlas on YouTube.



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