Your ScanWatch 2 allows you to track your activity: number of steps, run tracking and swim tracking. Whether you are walking, running or swimming, you don’t have to do anything to start tracking it. All you have to do is wear your ScanWatch 2, it will do the rest.

(1) Number of steps during the day
(2) Percentage of the daily step goal achieved
(3) Estimated distance walked during the day
(4) Estimated calories burned during the day (active calories and total number of calories)*
(5) Visual representation of the number of floors climbed: each bar corresponds to a 30-minute period
(6) Heart rate graph
(7) Baseline Temperature fluctuations

*Note that active calories are the calories burned from exercise (such as walking) and total calories are the sum of the active calories and your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate - an estimate of the amount of calories needed at rest so that the body can function).

The integrated accelerometer allows your ScanWatch 2 to automatically count your number of steps and to recognize when you are running. Your running activity, your distance and your calories are calculated thanks to an algorithm based on your number of steps and your personal data (age, height and weight).

Stairs climbed are tracked via an altimeter. The altimeter measures changes in atmospheric pressure (which changes as you gain or lose elevation) to track your elevation. In order for ScanWatch 2 to measure elevation, you must both walk forward and up. Climbing a ladder or using an elevator, for instance, will not result in elevation being tracked, while walking up a hill, will.

Note:

• Elevation is calculated as an equivalent in floors, not as the real number of stairs climbed. 3 meters is equivalent to 1 floor.
• Since atmospheric pressure is used to measure elevation, when using stationary equipment such as a treadmill or a stair-climbing machine, elevation will not be measured as there is no change in atmospheric pressure.

Important information concerning elevation issues:

• The altimeter sensor is a hole next to the side button of the watch. Inserting an object into the sensor can damage it.
• If there is water into the hole, the altimeter can be disrupted.
• The altimeter only activates if steps are detected. An interruption of these steps can cause a slight difference of floors climbed.