RUXBURY EM1 Equestrian Heart Rate and Motion Monitor User Guide

RUXBURY EM1 Equestrian Heart Rate and Motion Monitor User Guide

Ruxbury Equestrian Heart Rate and Motion Monitor EM1

Quick User Guide

Ruxbury Equestrian Heart Rate and Motion Monitor model EM1
– Ruxbury Tracker – is the ultimate fitness tracker for horses.
Use it to …

• Improve your riding.
• Keep track of your training.
• Monitor your horse well-being.

The Ruxbury Tracker can be used for training a to monitor fitness and health of your horse.

Tracker Placement

OBS! For the most optimal results, have the tracker located on the same side as where you are carrying your phone.

Preferably on your left side.

Features

Easy to mount and operate Ruxbury EM1 sensor for measuring and logging horse heart rate and motion, attaching to a head collar using the included sleeve with an integrated elastic strap.

• Training metrics indicate fitness and performance level, well-being monitoring detects elevated heart rate.
• Distress notifications, e.g., too high heart rate
• Route tracking
• Built-in rechargeable battery (up to 120 hours)
• One button Ruxbury Tracker operation (on, off, battery status) with integrated LED indicator (power on/off, ready to connect, connected, software update)

The Ruxbury Tracker is designed for over-the-air software update by the user. Ruxbury may from time to time introduce new features by means of software update.
Checkwww.ruxbury.com.

You need to provide your own:

1. Smartphone. Download Ruxbury App available for iOS and Android phones.
2. Head collar or bridle for your horse.

Check www.ruxbury.com for replacement protective sleeves, software updates for EM1 sensor device and information about new app versions.

Operating the Ruxbury EM1 sensor

Push button and LED light

The Ruxbury sensor shall be used with a smartphone app.
Therefore, you shall have your smartphone near the sensor, typically within 10-20 meters.

You operate the Ruxbury sensor using a button with an integrated LED indicator.

There are two gestures – a long press and a short tap:

• Power on – short tap, indicated by a red blink, followed by a slow blue blink.
• Power off – long press (>3 seconds), indicated by a long red light.

You can also see an approximate battery level indication by a short tap when the Ruxbury sensor is turned on: 1 green flash – less than 25% battery capacity left; 2 green flashes – between 25% and 75% battery capacity left; 3 green flashes – more than 75% battery capacity left.

The push button gestures, their functions and LED indications are described in Appendix 1.

Charging

Observe the following precautions when charging the Ruxbury sensor:

• Do not charge the device while the Ruxbury sensor is mounted on a horse.
• Ensure that the temperature in the location where you charge is above 10 degrees Celsius / 50 degrees Fahrenheit and below 40 degrees Celsius / 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Please note, that there is no need to remove the protective sleeve to charge the Ruxbury sensor.

Use a fingernail to open the rubber lid covering the USB port on the sensor’s long side and plug in the provided micro-USB cable. Make sure a proper orientation of the cable towards the USB port.

The Ruxbury sensor turns on when power is applied to the USB port. The charging state is indicated by a slow green blink.

Mounting the Ruxbury sensor device on a horse

You shall set up a head collar or bridle for a horse. The elastic strap will fit any head collar. Mount the Ruxbury sensor on the head collar, below a horse ear as shown with the circular sensor facing towards a horse. For best accuracy use a stiff collar and a fairly tight fit.

Make sure that the Ruxbury sensor applies a slight pressure to the horse fur, but without causing discomfort. If in doubt about a proper Ruxbury Tracker location, use your finger to find a spot where you can feel the pulse.

Check www.ruxbury.com for replacement protective sleeves, software updates for EM1 sensor device and information about new app versions.

Ruxbury App

Ruxbury Training App makes your horse riding and training more engaging and smarter.

Using the Ruxbury Tracker with the app you will get an insight into your horse heart rate and motion. Here are the key features:

• Keep records of your equestrian training sessions.
• For each training, Ruxbury Training app records and stores and shows your horse’s heart rate and motion level.
• Ruxbury Tracker and App calculates additional session metrics like 1-minute heart rate and motion, heart and motion intensity and load figures so you can compare trainings and set goals for the next training.
• Obtain a map of your training route.
• Set a limit on the maximum heart rate to prevent overtraining.
• View sessions graphs: heart rate, motion, and heart intensity.
• Export data in Excel compatible format for further analysis.

The heart rate intensity is the average heart effort or load (a.k.a. heart rate zone) on a scale of 0 to 5 (max.) The heart rate load is the aggregate heart rate intensity aggregated over the session time. Your horse’s fitness is improving if you can do the same training with lower heart rate intensity and lower heart rate load.

Sessions

When used for field or track training or competition, the Ruxbury Tracker will record heart rate and motion data each second and calculate additional summary 1-minute interval data.

Before starting a session, you may check a horse profile to set/ change the thresholds used to generate notifications. Setting some threshold values may require a prior experience of using the Ruxbury Tracker with your horse.

Optionally, you can also have a session without the Ruxbury Tracker. The user shall just keep the smartphone with her/ him while riding a horse. The Ruxbury app will use smartphone to record the session duration, and, if the location tracking is enabled: distance, pace, speed, and route.

Getting Started

Sign up and register:

1. Download the Ruxbury app to your smartphone, open the app and sign up.
2. Register your first horse.

Usually when you sign-in to the smartphone app, you will see a home screen showing your horse. If you have more than one horse registered, you can change the target horse by using Horses menu function.

You start a new session using the ‘>’ button when viewing a horse.

During a training session the Ruxbury app will show performance metrics, graphs, and charts. In a typical situation you can view
performance data after a session.

Notifications are stored in the notification log and can be viewed using the “bell” notification icon.

Prepare for a ride:

1. Power up the Ruxbury sensor using the sensor button.
2. Mount the Ruxbury sensor on a bridle below ear with a circular sensor facing towards a horse skin.
   o Use the integrated elastic strap to attach the Ruxbury sensor to the bridle.
   o Ensure contact to a skin but avoid too tight a fit.

Start a training session, ride, and finish:

1. Use the Ruxbury app, touch “>” button.
2. Select a “the Ruxbury EM1 sensor which appears on screen.
3. Touch “Start tracking” to begin a session.
4. Keep your phone with you and ride your horse.
5. Touch “Stop session” to terminate a session. The Ruxbury sensor will automatically power off.

Ruxbury sensor maintenance

• Storage – Keep your Ruxbury sensor in the provided protective velvet dust bag or in a box when not in use. Clean the Ruxbury sensor after use. Keep the Ruxbury Monitor updated with the latest available software for the Ruxbury sensor and the latest Ruxbury app.

• Cleaning – use a damp soft cloth with a mild detergent.
  Finish with a damp cloth and dry it.

• Replacing the protective sleeve – you can obtain a new protective sleeve from Ruxbury at web address www.ruxbury.com/shop .

To mount a new sleeve, start by pulling the sleeve over the two small hooks, then pull the sleeve over the surface with the circular censor and finish by pulling the strap over the entire body of the sensor. Double check using your finger that the sleeve has no folds and use the strap to stretch and pull the sleeve in place.

To remove the sleeve, follow the steps above in a reverse order.

• Software update – the Ruxbury app will notify you when a new sensor software is available. Use your app, navigate to the menu, select “Settings”, and then “Sensor settings” to start the software upgrade process.

Do not turn power off during the software update process and keep your phone near the Ruxbury sensor. The software update process may take several minutes.

Special Considerations

• Comfort vs. accuracy considerations – the accuracy of the sensor’ heart rate depends on a fit to the horse’s skin. It is tradeoff between comfort and accuracy.
• Connectivity and range – the Ruxbury sensor is designed for long range operation, of up to 100m distance between a phone and the sensor in free space outside, and up to 30m inside a building.
• External conditions – the Ruxbury sensor shall not be used when the horse is under or very near infrared heating lamps.
• Very loosely fitted sensor in a strong sunlight may also fail to operate correctly.
• If a training session takes place indoors then do not use route tracking. A route tracking using smartphone’s GPS signal is not reliable indoors.

Smartphone considerations

• Bluetooth – you shall have Bluetooth enabled on your smartphone or tablet. If you try to start a session with Bluetooth disabled, you will be asked to enable Bluetooth in your phone’s settings.
• Route tracking – is possible if your phone has enabled location services. If you have disabled location services and try to enable route tracking when starting a session, you will asked to allow location services.

Smartwatch integration

Please keep your app up to date and check www.ruxbury.com to see when the smartphone integration is available.

Disclaimer

The provided Ruxbury EM1 sensor is not a medical device.
However, every consideration has been made to make it as accurate as possible.

Compliance

Please refer to the Ruxbury EM1 Safety Manual provided with the Ruxbury sensor or visit www.ruxbury.com.

Warranty

See www.ruxbury.com/support

Appendix 1 – push button LED indicator

When powered off:
Short press => Power on, one RED blink.

While waiting for a connection:
Fast BLUE blink, first 2 min., slow BLUE blink hereafter.

Connected to a smartphone:
Slow GREEN blink.

Charging:
Slow GREEN blink while charging, steady GREEN when fully charged.

Updating sensor software:
Activated from the Ruxbury app, GREEN blink when transferring data, then alternating BLUE and RED blink.

Long press when the sensor is turned on except when charging => Power off, one RED blink

Short press when the sensor is turned on except when charging => battery check: 1, 2 or 3 GREEN blinks corresponding to less than 25%, 25%-75%, or more than 75% battery capacity left

Ruxbury Equestrian Heart Rate and Motion Monitor EM1
Quick User Guide – version 02

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Ruxbury ApS
c/o Zenegy ApS

Slotsmarken 16
2970 Hørsholm
Denmark

Danish company registration number 4097 4199.

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References

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