According to scientific papers Apple watches are the most accurate PPG watches – can we use those to do physiolological research with those? – PETER GAMMA (Director & Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS)

Last Updated on December 10, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Apple watches are the PPG watches which are studied best in these scientific papers:

Which are the most accurate heart rate monitors for different activities?

Apple watches are scientifically validated for the activities they are studied with in these papers, and that is for instance treadmill runs up to about 15 km/h compared to a 3 channel gold standard ECG device, but Apple watches where also tested at rest in these papers.

We therefore can use Apple watches for scientific studies and have validation papers for different watches and different activities, but we do not know of scientists wo make scientific studies with Apple watches.

One of the issues of Apple watches is that they do not offer a data analysis platform for scientific studies. But parameters from Apple watches can be streamed into Home Assistant and InfluxDB for further data analysis.

Udo Berndts example with the Apple Health Auto Export app & Home Assistant & InfluxDB

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