{"id":19734,"date":"2016-01-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3627386"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:00:00","slug":"fitbit-the-dangers-of-inaccurate-m2m-data-thingsexpo-iot-m2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/fitbit-the-dangers-of-inaccurate-m2m-data-thingsexpo-iot-m2m\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit: The Dangers of Inaccurate M2M Data | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the Vegas-style hypefest that is the Consumer Electronics Show, fitness wearables darling Fitbit is already in hot water. Numerous customers, furious at the inaccuracies of Fitbit\u2019s devices, filed a national class-action lawsuit on January 5.<br \/>\n\u201cPlaintiffs and many consumers like them have experienced\u2014and testing confirms\u2014that the [Fitbit] PurePulse Trackers consistently mis-record heart rates by a very significant margin, particularly during exercise,\u201d the lawsuit alleges. \u201cFar from \u2018counting every beat,\u2019 the PurePulse Trackers do not and cannot consistently and accurately record wearers\u2019 heart rates during the intense physical activity for which Fitbit expressly markets them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3627386\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the Vegas-style hypefest that is the Consumer Electronics Show, fitness wearables darling Fitbit is already in hot water. Numerous customers, furious at the inaccuracies of Fitbit&rsquo;s devices, filed a national class-action lawsuit on January 5.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Plaintiffs and many consumers like them have experienced&mdash;and testing confirms&mdash;that the [Fitbit] PurePulse Trackers consistently mis-record heart rates by a very significant margin, particularly during exercise,&rdquo; the lawsuit alleges. &ldquo;Far from &lsquo;counting every beat,&rsquo; the PurePulse Trackers do not and cannot consistently and accurately record wearers&rsquo; heart rates during the intense physical activity for which Fitbit expressly markets them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3627386\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}