# Open Movement from Axivity

**URL:** <https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-movement-from-axivity/516>\
**Category:** Open Medical Hardware\
**Created:** [5 July 2016 21:31 UTC](https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-movement-from-axivity/516 "2016-07-05T21:31:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![robdykedotcom](https://openhealthhub.org/user_avatar/openhealthhub.org/robdykedotcom/32/560_2.png) [@robdykedotcom](https://openhealthhub.org/u/robdykedotcom)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2016 21:31 UTC](https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-movement-from-axivity/516/1 "2016-07-05T21:31:50Z")

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Serendipity / FP!

Earlier today I discovered [Axivity](http://axivity.com/) and [Open Movement](https://github.com/digitalinteraction/openmovement).

Axivity make a wearable which is being used by UK Biobank to capture 7-day physical activity data for 100K participants.

The wearables link to Open Movement; a software platform for the data captured by the Axivity inertial sensors. The data is in a “truly open format”. There is an open source analysis software which uses validated algorithms for physical activity, wear time and energy expenditure &tc…

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**Author:** ![brylie](https://openhealthhub.org/user_avatar/openhealthhub.org/brylie/32/114_2.png) [@brylie](https://openhealthhub.org/u/brylie)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2016 12:14 UTC](https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-movement-from-axivity/516/2 "2016-09-07T12:14:58Z")

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I can’t find any information about the hardware license for Axivity.

Is the Axivity hardware open source? E.g. is it released under an open license with hardware schematics?

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**Author:** ![brylie](https://openhealthhub.org/user_avatar/openhealthhub.org/brylie/32/114_2.png) [@brylie](https://openhealthhub.org/u/brylie)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2016 12:16 UTC](https://openhealthhub.org/t/open-movement-from-axivity/516/3 "2016-09-07T12:16:51Z")

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Nevermind, sorry. I just viewed the Open Movement repository and found the following:

> The source code for the firmware and software is available under a BSD 2-clause license (source text), and the hardware (PCB designs, layouts and schematics), enclosure designs and documentation are available under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY Attribution License (source text).