The Basis Peak’s heart rate monitor now works with third-party apps

Nov20

by Sindy Cator on November 20, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Lifestyle, Mobile, Product Updates

The Basis Peak doesn’t try to replicate a smartphone on your wrist. Instead, it’s meant mainly for fitness and sleep tracking. To that end, the company announced today that the health tracker will now share heart rate data with third-party fitness iOS apps like Strava, RunKeeper and Endomondo. Unlike other health trackers or smartwatches, the Peak constantly monitors your heart rate without the wearer having to enable the feature. The feature uses the Bluetooth GATT protocol to share data with the apps, and Basis has a page where it will list compatible iOS apps. As for Android apps, Basis states the following on…