Academic Research

The Global Leader in Physical Activity Measurement

ActiGraph digital health technology has been used on all six continents to objectively quantify physical activity, mobility, sedentary behavior, and sleep in thousands of population health and academic research studies. Real world studies focused on a wide variety of therapeutic areas—obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory, oncology, neurology and sleep disorders.

Academic Research

ActiGraph digital health technology has been used on all six continents to objectively quantify physical activity, mobility, sedentary behavior, and sleep in thousands of population health and academic research studies.

Paving the Way to Improve Lives

The Global Leader in Physical Activity Measurement

ActiGraph is the most widely used medical-grade accelerometry monitoring system in the world, appearing in more than 22,000 published peer-reviewed scientific publications to date. Real world studies focused on a wide variety of therapeutic areas:

Obesity

Obesity

Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular Disease

Respiratory

Respiratory

Oncology

Oncology

Oncology

Neurology

Sleep

Sleep Disorders

Key Projects

Accurate, Reliable Wearable Technology

Trusted by over 2,000 universities and academic research organizations, ActiGraph wearable devices are consistently rated among the most accurate and reliable devices of their kind.

ActiGraph LEAP™

ActiGraph LEAP™  New 

Accelerometer, Temperature Sensor, PPG Sensor, Barometer, Gyroscope

CentrePoint Insight Watch and ActiGraph wGT3X-BT

CentrePoint® Insight Watch and ActiGraph wGT3X-BT

Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor, Temperature Sensor
 

Powerful, Flexible Software

We offer the flexibility of two powerful software platforms to meet the diverse needs of our academic research clients.

Researcher Using CentrePoint® Platform
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CentrePoint®

The cloud-based CentrePoint platform solves many of the operational and logistical challenges associated with large scale, multi-site research studies.

To simplify device deployment and reduce errors, studies are preconfigured and collected data uploaded remotely — providing the research team with near real-time information about wear compliance,participant activity and sleep behaviors.

ActiLife®

ActiLife®

Developed in collaboration with the academic research community, ActiLife legacy desktop software features a wide selection of validated scoring algorithms and data processing tools for maximum analytic flexibility.

Researcher using ActiLife®

ActiLife Measures

Raw Acceleration

Raw Acceleration

Activity Counts

Activity Counts

Wear Time

Wear Time

Physical Activity Intensity / Cutpoints

Physical Activity Intensity / Cutpoints

Energy Expenditure

Energy Expenditure

Activity / Sedentary Bouts

Activity / Sedentary Bouts

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Sleep Scoring

Body Position

Body Position

ActiLife Licenses

Each ActiLife license includes Full and Lite activations. The Full activation will allow you to initialize devices, download data, view/open data files, and analyze data. The Lite activation will allow you to initialize devices and download the data collected. Most of our customers will use the Full activation on a main computer and use the Lite activation on computers that will only need to utilize it’s limited functionality.

ActiLife®

Single

1 Full Activation

5 Lite Activations

ActiLife®

Small Enterprise

5 Full Activation

10 Lite Activations

ActiLife®

Medium Enterprise

10 Full Activation

15 Lite Activations

ActiLife®

Large Enterprise

15 Full Activation

20 Lite Activations

ActiLife Tech Specs

Here are the minimum and recommended hardware and software requirements for ActiLife 6.x. For a comprehensive list of system requirements, kindly visit our dedicated ActiLife System Requirements page located in the Support section.

ActiLife Specifications

 

  • Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported)
  • 2 GB of system memory; 4 GB is recommended to run Windows 7/8 in a virtual machine or if your host OS is Lion
  • 1 GB of free disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop (v7.0+) or VMWare Fusion (v5.0.0+) installation
  • Approximately 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine
  • Video Card capable of at least 1280x1024 resolution at 32-bit color depth
  • USB 2.0 Compliant Port
  • Internet Access is recommended (for Activation, Auto-Update, and Data Vault features)

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Key

ActiLife Key

If your ActiLife license key requires you to run a certain version of ActiLife, provide your ActiLife license key, and you’ll be given a link to the version of ActiLife that your license key is able to be used with.

User Manuals

ActiLife Manual

Download the latest ActiLife manual and learn how to install, setup, and use your ActiLife software.

ActiGraph

Pioneering the Digital Transformation of Clinical Research™