Smart watch Fall detection

Yes and when I run. I have tested it and it works. You need to have your phone with you for most of them for it to work.


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So if you are out where there is no cell phone reception it would be useless? I also wonder about fast, short steep ups and downs, would that set it off? False alarms?

Buddy of mine uses it and it goes off on a sharper drop and hard compression.

RustyGirl said:

So if you are out where there is no cell phone reception it would be useless? I also wonder about fast, short steep ups and downs, would that set it off? False alarms?

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Yep, not going to work without cell reception. Watches usually do a count down before it will send the SOS, so that you can stop it if it is a false alarm. If you are moving, it usually won't send it at all.

My Galaxy 3 gave me too many false positives on the trails.(steep down & ups) so I had to turn it off. I now have to triple hit a button to activate SOS, so I need to at least be conscious. Cell range is not a problem on the Houston trails I ride. Never too far from civilization.

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I have one. It has only detected twice, neither while riding, so not a lot of false alarms. I don't do jumps....intentionally.
As previously mentioned, when the watch starts the SOS countdown, you can stop it. Mine can send a text which includes GPS location and can make a call. As long as you has even a little coverage, a text can usually be sent. No coverage at all will be pretty much pointless.

Will fall detection work without your phone if its the GPS/Cellular model? Just got one this week after my Garmin took a crap.

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Garmin has a new 945 with service built in. I am hoping that it trickles down to the cheaper/smaller watches. I assume the Apple Watch with service will have something similar. I am not familiar with the other brands.


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Does that garmin use satellite comms for that? Mine doesn't, so you need your phone and cell connection still. Even if it has a cell transmitter, that's next to useless here.

The garmin 945 used LTE-M1 cell service

I used an ICEdot for a while when I lived in New England and was riding gnarlier trails than what's available to me now in SE MI. It uses a G sensor to detect sudden deceleration, so no issues with steep ups/downs, and starts a timer on your smartphone that you can stop if you don't need an SOS message sent with your GPS coordinates.

I never had a false alarm, even hucking 4' to flat, so it does take a fairly good whack to trigger it. I don't remember if that's a user configurable setting. Anyway, it made my wife feel better when I was getting silly on some technical trails by myself with some consequences if I got a feature wrong.

Apple watch cellular version and no false fall detections in 4 years. It did detect a crash and asked if i was ok. If i didnt respond then it would ramp up the alerts and call 911. No phone needed to call 911 if its the cellular version.

jrhone said:

Apple watch cellular version and no false fall detections in 4 years. It did detect a crash and asked if i was ok. If i didnt respond then it would ramp up the alerts and call 911. No phone needed to call 911 if its the cellular version.

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Amazing tech. Saw Apple's advertisement with the bike rider being saved by it.

My fall detection was off. I now decided to leave it on for awhile and see if it false alarms with my activities. It notified me that it was for falls that can happen as we get older, when I turned it on. It's for old people slipping and falling perhaps. Not really for extreme sports and all those accidents that are better served by the buddy system.

ZX11 said:

It's for old people slipping and falling perhaps. Not really for extreme sports and all those accidents that are better served by the buddy system.

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False. It is like the Apple advertisement says, optimized for activities like mountain biking. Drops and extreme shocks wont set it off accidentally. It uses the gps, altimeter and gyroscope to detect a drop in height and the gps to determine if your moving or immobile immediately after the drop in altitude. Then uses the gyroscope to detect movement on the arm. So when riding you will never be stationary and motionless immediately after a drop in altitude. There are many mt bikers and hikers and skateboarders that have been saved because of the technology.

All I ride are trails with drops, jumps, and extreme impacts, it’s called mountain biking.

I carry a SPOT, never had to use it, but I carry it just the same, most of my rides are solo and often remote.

You know, this thread is like an old mountain bikers version of “help, I’ve crashed and I can’t get up” 🤣

You all just kill me, I didn’t think it could get any better, and then this, well done 👏

Nurse Ben said:

All I ride are trails with drops, jumps, and extreme impacts, it’s called mountain biking.

I carry a SPOT, never had to use it, but I carry it just the same, most of my rides are solo and often remote.

You know, this thread is like an old mountain bikers version of “help, I’ve crashed and I can’t get up” 🤣

You all just kill me, I didn’t think it could get any better, and then this, well done 👏

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hope you are never in a situation where you are unconscious and in a life threatening situation. Is your SPOT gonna help you in that scenario?

Nurse Ben said:

All I ride are trails with drops, jumps, and extreme impacts, it’s called mountain biking.

I carry a SPOT, never had to use it, but I carry it just the same, most of my rides are solo and often remote.

You know, this thread is like an old mountain bikers version of “help, I’ve crashed and I can’t get up” 🤣

You all just kill me, I didn’t think it could get any better, and then this, well done 👏

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Hmm I have had several wrecks where it took me awhile before I could move. Takes Longer in old age. Lol. Didn’t need EMS but wouldn’t have been able to shut the thing off in time.

Bacon Fat said:

Yep, not going to work without cell reception. Watches usually do a count down before it will send the SOS, so that you can stop it if it is a false alarm. If you are moving, it usually won't send it at all.

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That makes sense, it shouldn’t call if you are still moving. Was worried about being unaware it had gone off.