Last Updated on May 27, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
No. If so, mbraintrain would have made a comparison table as Adam Feuer from HackEEG did to be competitive with other EEG devices:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/starcat/hackeeg
Smarting PRO offers 32 channels and 64 channel EEG devices. There so many physiological sensor devices on the market. Many of those where used or developed by their developer to track certain physiological parameter during specific activities.
Richard Davidson studied Gamma wave in brain of mediators:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
But who has Richard Davidsons setup at home? But do we really have to start with measuring gamma waves from meditators? There are other parameters which are helpful to rack our (mental) health, for instance the resting heart rate. DC Rainmaker wrote somewhere in his blog, if his resting heart rate is above 40 beats per minute, he is over stressed. Normal breath rate is between 12 breath per minute and 20, and a slow breath rate correlates with a calm mind, high alpha correlates with inner peace, etc.
Does it make sense to buy a mBrain Smarting PRO with 32 or 64 channels for meditators to use at home? If you want to know, go for it.
We have intruduced so many sensors in our journal. Garmin for instance offers a great number of parameters on Garmin Connect, but does not allow users to make calculations with it. These parameters are helpful, but cannot be quantified by users, which we think is an outdated concept.
Richard Davidson had a top down approach and and tracked gamma waves and brain circuits with EEG and fMRI. But we can also make a bottom up approach and study the parameter from sensors which are affordable and available. Unfortunately, soft- and hardware platform which allow to make our own calculations with those are little developed. Home Assistant for house is far more developed. We think a modified solution of Home Assistant for physiological sensors could be a good solution for Rahmat Ilias Basti in Indonesia as well as for Richard Davidson in Madison Wisconsin. And we think this is best done as a community project as it is described in our journal, so that not only Richard Davidson can afford to use it, but also Rahmat Ilias Basti from Indonesia.