Last Updated on August 19, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We started with finding out how to connect a Garmin watch to Matlab. Then, Dave Lusty who works for Microsoft UK showed us, how to connect a Garmin watch over the EventHubApp to the Microsoft Azure Cloud and from there to Microsoft Power BI, from where it is possible to connect the RestAPI of PowerPi to Matlab.
Now, things have become a little bit simpler. We can stream an Apple watch to Home Assistant over an iPhone app, we can build a 3 lead ECG device from an OpenBCI Cyton board and HeartPy, and we can build a 16 channel EEG device with OpenBCI Cyton & the WIFI shield, and stream sensor data from there over BrainFlow to MNE Python.
Is it possible to write a paper with the Garmin watch and Matlab? Is there someone left who is interested in this question?
Can we use a 3 lead ECG device with HeartPy for scientific studies? Yes, a previous a paper (*1) says that a 3 lead ECG device based on the Cyton board can be used instead of an Adinstruments device which costs $ 15’000 for certain applications. And HearPy has been cited in many papers as well.
Can we use a 16 channel OpenBCI EEG heatset & WIFI shield for scientific studies? Yes, this has already been demonstrated. (*2).
But our main interest is how to stream sensor data from an Apple watch, a Xiaomi termometer and a AD8232 ECG chip to InfluxDB and to do data analysis in Python there.
This is as starting from the beginning with the Garmin watch and Matlab. But things have become easier since then, and we suppose the same will happen with the Apple watch and InfluxDB. And today we would like also to thank all the people who have helped us to make these complicated things easier and more affordable.
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