About Project
A pedometer is a device that is only utilized to count footsteps. It will count the total number of footsteps and show them on a 16x2 LCD module. It can be incorporated with Arduino Smart Watch.
ADXL335 Accelerometer
It is basically a complete 3-axis Analog accelerometer that works on capacitive sensing.ADXL335 accelerometer can estimate static and dynamic acceleration.
The working principle of this is to convert acceleration in any direction to its specific variable voltage.
Pedometer working
It measures the total no of footsteps with the help of three components of motion that are forward, vertical as well as side. The pedometer system utilizes an accelerometer to obtain these values. Below are the steps that the pedometer follow:
- It starts the calibration as soon as it gets actuated at the initial level.
- Then it constantly gets the data from X, Y, and Z-axis.
- Then it estimates the total acceleration vector from the starting point.
- The acceleration vector is basically the square root of the X, Y, and Z-axis values.
- Then it differentiates the average acceleration values from the threshold values to calculate the total step number.
- If it crosses the threshold value, then it improves the step count.