Which Fitbit Counts Floors

Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet.

Which fitbit counts floors.

Fitbit devices detect floors using something called an altimeter. Things like wind and air pressure can wildly effect the floor counts as well. The device on your wrist takes these readings to estimate. It does not count floors accurately and i have been trying to determine when it does and doesn t count.

In my experience with the versa ionic and charge 3 floor counts aren t very accurate. Walking up a steep hill counts a standard flight of stairs works etc. Fitbit can tell us for sure what goes into their calorie algorithm but it appears to me to be based on 1 heartrate 2 weight 3 sex and 4 age. When i looked online today floors climbed is now listed under features and specs for both inspire and inspire hr.

I get 11 floors just by showering with my fitbit. It s a wasted metric in my opinion. If i pause after one floor then make the next flight it will count two. It does not register floors when you go down.

01 21 2014 13 06 your fitbit is an altimeter so things like barimetric pressure and wind can impact its count. I live in a house which has three floors with two flights of stairs. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed. Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.

Please note that fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation. As another example when i downhill ski i have giant floor counts minimal steps but big enough heartrate spikes to elevate my calorie count for the day. As wtksk8r mentioned your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time. A 10 foot increase equals one floor regardless of how many steps you take.

Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation. I ve always read that the inspire does not count stairs. I also took the quiz to be matched with a product selecting floors climbed as my only desired feature and fitbit matched me. Fitbit devices do not count the elevation gains simulated from a stairmaster inclined treadmill or other stationary exercise equipment.

Your device uses changes in barometric pressure to detect elevation change and therefore requires that you physically change elevation in order to properly record floors.