Stress test treadmill with Xiaomi treadmill & OpenBCI?

Last Updated on November 18, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Stress test treadmills use the Bruce protocol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_protocol

Stage	Minutes	% grade	MPH	min/mile	km/h	min/km	METS	m/s
1	3	10	1.7	35:18	2.7	22:13	3	0.75
2	3	12	2.5	24:00	4.0	15:00	4-5	1.11
3	3	14	3.4	17:39	5.5	10:55	7	1.52
4	3	16	4.2	14:17	6.8	8:49	10	1.89
5	3	18	5.0	12:00	8.0	7:30	14	2.22
6	3	20	5.5	10:55	8.9	6:44	17	2.47
7	3	22	6.0	10:00	9.7	6:11	21	2.69

Total Duration = 21 minutes

The hardware for such a device could be implemented with a Xiaomi treadmill controlled in Python and OpenBCI ECG. Additionally a mechanism is required to uplift the treadmill. And then we can implemente to Bruce protocol. We then should have the ECG data of a stress treadmill. But we do not know what stress test treadmill software then caluculate from these data. Xiaomi treadmills are not medical grade devices. But they are easy to control by a computer:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/xiaomi-treadmill-walkingpad-integration/204713

and we think a good device to start doing some experiment.