It would have to be a new device.
Fitbit alta count floors.
The most basic and inexpensive model is the fitbit zip which easily clips onto your clothing and keeps track of steps calories and distance.
Fitbit openly admits that a gust of wind or even a sudden door shutting can affect the floor count.
A stopwatch that can be used to time activities.
Though i do think adding floors to a slim tracker that has so many features already isn t too good of an idea unless you know how to add more space to a tiny tracker.
Many consider it the premier source for pedometers and smartwatches to track your activity.
That being the case it is hardly the sine qua non without which nothing of tracker technology.
However there are many different models of fitbit they have a huge range of wearable and pedometer watches that will help you keep track of your step count and quite a bit more.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
An altimeter that measures elevation gain in terms of floors with one floor roughly equivalent to ten feet.
Sometimes this can make finding just the right pedometer for your need a.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.
The new features included.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.
Sunsetrunner floor counting is a hardware issue not software so an upgrade to current altas will never include floor counting.
If i pause after one floor then make the next flight it will count two.
For only 20 more you can buy a fitbit one which is a similar style but also keeps track of floors climbed active minutes and sleep patterns.
The fitbit has been around for many years now.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
I have noticed that if i go up the two flights in one continuous trip it will count only one floor.
I am too late to vote for the idea of floor counting in the fitbit alta but i also had the same reaction when i found out the alta doesn t count floors.
It does not count floors accurately and i have been trying to determine when it does and doesn t count.
A digital clock visible on the device s display.
I live in a house which has three floors with two flights of stairs.
The current alta does not have a built in altimeter to detect floors so it would not be possible to update them so they can count floors.
