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Rather a lot of personal information is collected, according to the Privacy Policy. Here are some of the more sensitive pieces of information collected: When not logged in Birth year Gender Height, weight and activity levels Device identifiers When using 'Enhanced Features' Phone number Nickname, profile image, birthday and country Steps, burned calories,...

SIMCOM SIM808 module seems to meet the requirements for your device. Bluetooth: compliant with 3.0+EDR Specification for GPS Receiver type 22 tracking /66 acquisition -channel GPS L1 C/A code Sensitivity Tracking: -165 dBm Cold starts : -147 dBm Time-To-First-Fix Cold starts: 30s (typ.) Hot starts: ...

My experience is that it rarely matters — you can try to define precisely what is or isn't IoT, but you're probably wasting your time splitting hairs rather than solving problems. For a good overview of what different groups consider "IoT", you might want to read What classifies a device as IoT? — you quickly see that one question gives you at least ten ...

You're right, there is a grey area (even if there are some formal definitions, it is still maybe early to be definitive). One key point about some wearables (in contrast to a smartphone) is that they rely on a 2nd device (such as a phone) to enable features. Both for configuration, and as a proxy to connect to the internet. It is this machine-to-machine ...

For the most part IoT is a buzzword since all the "Things" (including PCs, Tablets, and Smartphones) use the same internet. The biggest difference is the perception to the user. 10 years ago a smart phone would have been considered an IoT device but today, since almost everyone has one, it is just a phone. If it is a physical device, connects to something ...

Shameless plug In about a years time you can get an nRF91 + nRF52840 combo. LTE(CATM1 and NbIoT), GPS, BLE, USB, 802.15.4, etc, that uses a fraction of the power of current devices, and got plenty of µC-resources to spare.