Active8rlives BUDDY STEP COUNTER Manuale utente
www.acv8rlives.com
Oponal: Can view your data with a FREE App that works with: iOS
8.2 and above (iPhone 4s or later & iPad 3 or later) and select An-
droid devices running Android 4.4 and above.
Acvity Tracker
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Acv8rlives
We are a healthcare company. Our mission is to empower you to take care of
your health and that of your family by self-management through self-
monitoring.
From tracking levels of physical acvity, weight, food intake, cardiovascular
and lung funcon, to a new generaon of at-home tesng for long-term lung
disease, we provide the devices and web-based tools to help you be acve,
eat well and stay healthy. Learn more at www.acv8rlives.com
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Summary
Please read this manual carefully before you use
your new device so that you do not injure
yourself or others, or cause damage to your new
device through improper use.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is a simple electronic wearable device, which allows
you to monitor your physical acvity and energy expenditure—especially useful as part of
an exercise schedule, overall health and wellbeing or weight loss programme.
It sends informaon to your private FREE Acv8rlives account via a USB connecon with
your PC. You can see how well you are doing and keep track of your health and wellbeing.
You can stay commied to your goals by forming groups with other members of your
family, club, school or by joining our online communies. By working together in groups,
we are more successful in achieving our health goals. Acv8rlives is designed to help you
achieve this.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter does a lot more than just count your steps—it helps
you understand how your acvity changes throughout the week. It measures your acvity
and calculates your energy expenditure in calories, the distance you have walked or run
and the total acve me during each day.
When you view your data with either the Acv8rlives website or App, this device will help
you to work out how close to your target values you are at any given me. This manual
shows you how to quickly set-up your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter — it will take just 5-
10 minutes if you follow this guide through.
Oponal: Included is a FREE Smartphone App, which also tracks your food intake via our
photo-based Food Diary and these images are sent directly to your Free Acv8rlives
account. Your acvity, body composion and food intake can then all be viewed on a single
page. Talk about cause and eect—very powerful.
If in any doubt about your health, please consult your medical team rst and follow their
advice closely.
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Self-monitoring your parameters of health and those of your family, is a powerful way to
maintain your health and wellbeing, especially if you have a long-term health condion —
and 42% of us adults do.
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Health and Safety Noces
WARNINGS: The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is NOT waterproof. Do not
submerge it in water.
Seek advice from your Doctor about any long-term condion. This device should
not be used to make a primary diagnosis.
This device is not a toy. Only recommended for children over 7 years of age.
Use a so, microber cloth for cleaning. Don’t use harsh cleaning products as
these will cause damage to your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter. Don’t allow
sharp objects to scratch the screen of the LCD Display as this may damage it.
Do not allow your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter to be subjected to excessive
forces, shocks, dust, temperature changes or humidity over the range specied.
Harsh physical treatment may stop your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter from
working properly. Don’t expose your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter to direct
sunlight for long periods of me.
Don’t remove the back cover and tamper with the internal components. If you
do, you will invalidate your warranty and may cause irreparable damage. Other
than the replacement of the baeries (CR2032), there are no user serviceable
parts.
Take precauons when handling all baery types and dispose of baeries
properly. Remove the baeries if you are planning to store the device for a long
period of me. We hope you use your device for many years of course, but long
periods of storage with the baeries in place may damage the device and will
cause the baeries to discharge. Only use the baery type recommended in this
manual. Do not touch the exposed electronic circuits, as there is a danger of
electric shock.
When disposing of this product, ensure that it is collected separately for special
treatment and not as normal household waste.
The measurement funcons built into the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter are
not meant to substute professional measurement or industrial precision
devices. Values produced by the unit should be considered as reasonable
representaons only.
The technical specicaons for this product and the contents of the user manual
are subject to change without noce.
Contact Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter does not work properly.
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Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter
Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter has several parts, the LCD DISPLAY, Baery
Compartment, BUTTONS, USB connector. It is also supplied with a CR2032 baery in the
Baery Compartment, mini screw drive to open the Baery Compartment, Lanyard
Connector, Wrist Strap, a Neck Protector and Lanyard.
Open Baery Compart-
ment with Mini Screw
Driver
BUTTONS
RESET MODE SET MEMORY
Lanyard Connector
LCD Display
Baery compartment
USB Connector
Neck Protector
Lanyard
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Adding the Baeries
Your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter uses one CR2032 baery, which is supplied in the
Baery Compartment. This is a non-rechargeable baery and no aempt should be made to
recharge it. To acvate your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter you need to pull out the plasc
strip that is protruding from the baery compartment. If the LCD Display does not come on
you may need to open the Baery Compartment to ensure the baery is sing correctly, in
order to make the necessary electrical connecon.
To open the Baery Compartment on the reverse side of the device, use the mini screw
driver provided and insert 1 x CR2032 baery with the wring uppermost in the baery
housing. Replace the cover. The LCD DISPLAY should now light up.
If not used, it will power o aer about 30 seconds. A faulty operaon would also make it
power o.
Remove the baeries if you are planning to store the device for a long period of me. We
hope you use your device for many years of course, but long periods of storage with the
baeries in place may damage the device and will cause the baeries to discharge.
Replace the set of baeries when the baery low symbol appears on the LCD DISPLAY.
During the baery exchange the data stored in the memory of the monitor is well protected
and will NOT be lost.
Note: Do not tamper or aempt to open the unit in which the
baery is housed, your warranty will be invalidated. Substances
contained within the baery may damage the environment or hu-
man health if handled and thus is a risk of electrical shock or burns.
When disposing of this product, ensure that it is collected separate-
ly for special treatment and not as normal household waste.
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How does the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter
work?
Now to use our Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter! Aach your step counter to your belt, hang
it around your neck, wear it in your sock or in our arm/ankle strap when you are cycling. It
does not maer where you aach it as long as you wear it all day. Pockets are not great for
step counters—we forget about them and they end-up in washing machines. For this reason
and also the BUTTONS on the reverse side get pressed and reset, it is recommended that you
DO NOT wear your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter in pockets.
The Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter has a 3-axis accelerometer chip and a microprocessor,
which measures how you move (accelerate) in three dimensions and it uses this informaon
to calculate the number of steps you take. You will noce that the display does not always
update as you move (it has a 10 step lter to eliminate inaccuracies due to non acvity-
related movement and bumps) and may even go blank. It has a sleep mode to make the
baery last longer but will wake up and update from me-to-me or if you connue moving.
It also records how much me you spend exercising. Useful as part of a rehabilitaon
programme.
If you hold the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter in your hand as you walk, you will see just
how accurately it can “sense” your steps and starts counng these aer you have taken 10
consecuve steps. Another ability of the Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter is that it will count
and store your steps for your last 7 days so that you can upload these at any me.
Calories are calculated based on your stride length and your weight. The values are
approximate but gives you a useful indicaon of how much eort it takes to burn o the food
you have eaten. You will be able to measure how much physical eort it takes to burn-o
even 200-300 Kcal—talk about an incenve to reduce your intake of “junk” calories (a
chocolate mun at Starbucks is 500 calories—that takes a lot of walking to burn this snack
o!)
Again, an approximate distance value is calculated for you based on your steps and your
average stride length. Useful for esmang how far you walk at work or at school, for
example.
Steps, distance, calories and acvity me are all saved to your Acv8rlives Buddy Step
Counter and can be uploaded to your personal Acv8rlives account. This is covered in later
secons.
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OK, let’s get started with the PC Setup
This guide will instruct you how to:
1Install the Acv8rlives Service Link to your computer
or PC;
Instruct you how to operate, use and take care of
your Acv8rlives Buddy Step Counter and connect to
your computer or PC; and
How to take roune readings and upload directly to
your Acv8rlives account via your computer or PC.
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If you follow these direcons sequenally, it will take you about 5-
10 minutes to learn how to measure your physical acvity and
view your data.
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