Is there no scientific community who tests the accuracy of consumer grade OHRMs on a regular basis and publishes papers?

Last Updated on December 11, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

There is only one scientist which we know it on a regular basis and that is Rob ter Horst:

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There are several institutions who are well equipped to publish these kind of scientific papers. But what stroke us was that we know of now institute how as published as second paper about consumer grade optical heart rate monitors after they have published a fist paper. The only exception we know if the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio who published a total of 3 papers about the accuracy of consumer grade OHRMs, mainly publishing interesting results about Apple watches:

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There is one paper which for us personally eventually worth to study more in detail which we haven t done to this date and that is a paper co-authored by HRV for training developer Marco Altini:

Heart rate variablity, one of the rare parameters which can be measured with consumer grade heart rate monitors such as the Polar H7 chest strap & is validated in a scientific paper (with co-author Marco Altini, PhD.)

To see if we could take over this for our projects. But as we said before the only scientist which seem to study the accuracy of these devices systematically and on a regular basis seems to be Rob ter Horst who we have critizised before. Are his studies eventually most interesting for business scientists who offer him device to test to increase their sales rates?

All of this makes for us personally 3 channel ECG devices more attractive:

Researchers from the University of Calgary found that a 3-lead ECG device based on the OpenBCI Cyton board can be used for HRV measurements instead of an industry-standard 3 lead ECG device from Adinstruments and costs only about 4%