Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

1650: How to build up a physiological multi-sensor device based on Azure Cloud & Power BI, Adafruit IO, Home Assistant & or the Balena Coud?

Who builds up such devices based on the:

  • Garmin Fenix 5
  • the Polar OH1
  • , the Polar H10
  • the Apple 9 Ultra

Sports watch companies, but not Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org

  • Ryan Hampton from balena made a big effort to attach the Polar H10 which to the balena cloud to create balena health to help us with our projects:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hampton-ryan

  • And we would like to thank him a lot for his work.
  • Here is the instruction:
  • Build a heartrate monitor using an e-ink reader, a Raspberry Pi, and balena

https://blog.balena.io/build-heartrate-monitor-using-raspberry-pi-and-balena

  • Ryan Hampton writes on linkedIn:
  • “At Balena, I have a passion for creating and expanding business and product opportunities.
  • Previously, I’ve led teams as director of business development, engineering manager, and solutions architect.
  • I have a track record of driving both customer satisfaction and revenue through partnerships, consultative sales, and technical strategy.”

All of this is great. But has Balena heath disappeared from Ryan Hampton’s GITHUB page?

https://github.com/rhampt/balena-health

Reviewer like DC Rainmaker, 5K Runner and Rob ter Horst catched our interest for consumer grade heart rate monitors such as the Polar OH1:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/03/polar-oh1-plus-optical-hr-sensor-in-depth-review.html

with stattements such as:

«Very accurate it not the most accurate optical heart rate monitor»

  • Later on Rob ter Horst has shown that the Polar OH1 is not the most accurate one, but is only a HRM with mediocre accuracy, and that is compared to the Polar H10 chest strap.
  • The real gold standard in science are 3 channel ECG devices for heart rate measuremements, if intense activities with strong body movements are not investigated, and for runs on a treadmill up to 15 km/h.
  • We have learned this from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
  • Over years Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org reviewed how to access sensors data from consumer grade heart monitors such as the Garmin watches, the Polar OH1, the Apple watch and the Polar H10.
  • We did not receive much help regarging this topic in support forums of consumer grade heart monitors.
  • On the contrary, our posts where deleted and our account was locked in the Garmin forum.
  • And Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org is convinced that Peter Gamma’s lawyer would help him to solve this problem.
  • But Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has let this be since this causes a lot of work, which was not worth it for him personally to this date.
  • Then after reviewing a lot about this topic we received help to solve this problem from:
  • Dave Lusty from Microsoft U.K to access heart rate from the Fenix 5
  • Udo Berndt from smart-live.net for the Apple watch
  • Ryan Hampton from Balena for the Polar H10
  • etc.

John Edgar Park from Adafruit showed us how to access Bluetooth low energy sensor data from sports sensors in a very fundamental way:

And we would like to thank Adafruit a lot for their great contributions to solve our problem.

  • With all of this knowledge neuroscientists such as Scott W. Harden with a passion for collaborative public software and hardware development:

https://github.com/swharden

  • Can easily access sports sensor sensor data now.
  • But the problem is, that Rob ter Horst’s scientific studies about the Polar H10 and the Apple watch could not convince us personally to use the Polar H10 and the Apple watch to do science with it.
  • To get accurate heart rate readings we need knowledge like this:
  • Which we only found from the cardiologists of the Cleveland clinic in Ohio.
  • And after we have learned this we are asking the question, which scientists to science with the Polar OH1, the Polar H10, the Apple watch?
  • Scientists do science with 3 or more ECG channel and devices from g.tec medical which costs up to 50 000 USD for the gtec multi-purpose:

g.Nautilus Multi-Purpose EEG Headset

And an ECG treadmill from Schiller which costs more than 20 000 USD:

  • Why did products based on the ADS1299 not fit very well for our needs to the present day?
  • We try to build devices for meditators such as Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro:
  • who has no money since 1978, but will we be successful with it?
  • So is it not better to choose platforms such as those of
  • Dave Lusty from Microft U.K. who uses Azure Cloud Power BI.
  • Udo Berndt from smart-live.net who uses Home Assistant.
  • Ryan Hampton from Balena who uses the Balena Cloud.
  • And John Edgar Park from Adafruit who uses Adafruit OI.
  • Instead of products which are based on the ADS1299 from Texas Instruments?
  • We invite all of these great developers to participate in new projects with TGAM EEG modules to build up a multi-sensor EEG device with up to 32 channels:

Here is how this can be done

Take TGAM EEG modules:

and 16 bit A/D converters:

  • And start building to build a software platform similar to Home Assistant for physiological sensors.
  • If it is not already there, if we have a deeper look, for instance here:

https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en

  • This is what Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org will do sooner or later.
  • And he will not let distract himself from posters which where hung up there by Swiss meditation teacher Diego Hangartner which has a degree in pharmacy from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich:
  • Posters which announce talks in Zurich from Matthieu Richard
  • Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics who reviewed PNAS papers of Richard Davidson in talks he gave in Zurich:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

Information for product sellers who do stock market speculation and scalping with products mentioned by Peter Gamma on www.petergamma.org.

According to the little experience of Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org, many of the products listed here are still full of issues which need to be resolved. If you do stock market speculation and sculping with those, you will loose Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org as a buyer of these products and as a reviewer. Is this not risky? Will you not loose a majority of your costumers as well?

And is it not so, that society in general does not accept stock market speculation and scalping with products as those which are listed here? And will you not be politically incapable of finding a majority of the voters if you do stock market speculation and sculping with these products?

And as a consequence will you not be condemned and punished by a political referendum soon? Especially if you do this to a Swiss, since are not majority of Swiss against stock market speculations and sculping with people on a budget? And people in Switzerland are known for a lot of political referendums, since we have direct democracy in this country.

And Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org will fight up to the European Court of Human Rights against people who do stock market speculation and sculping with the products which are mentioned on www.petergamma.org. And if they do not have yet the legal basis there to do so, he will fight for it.