To buy a heart rate monitor from Rob ter Horst or from Alfred E. Schiller ?

Last Updated on April 6, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Rob ter Host

  • Is post-doctoral researcher from the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna who is specialized in biological data analysis:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-ter-horst-90756a4a/?originalSubdomain=at

  • He founded the “The Quantified Scientist YouTube Channel” 4 years ago in March 2020.
  • he is self-employed

Rob ter Horst scientifically tested the accuracy of more than 100 smartwatches with a Polar H10 chest strap which costs 80 USD:

He refers to a paper of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM:

RR interval signal quality of a heart rate monitor and an ECG Holter at rest and during exercise

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219/#full-view-affiliation-1

Alfred E. Schiller

  • Studied physics
  • founded 1974 Schiller medical in Baar in Switzerland
  • he has 50 years of experience as a device builder.
  • he developed over 100 devices

https://healthcare-in-europe.com/en/news/company-profile-schiller-ag.html

Peter Gamma’s from www.petergamma.org favorite device from Alfred E. Schiller is the:

Schiller ECG treadmill C200 which costs 23 000 USD:

With this device all more than 100 of Rob ter Horst’s smartwatches can be tested and the scientific data will also be accepted by medical doctors and other researchers. We only need to repeat the treadmill protocol which was used by the Cardiologists of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio which goes up to about 15 km/h.:

Published in:

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2019 Aug;9(4):379-385.

Accuracy of commercially available heart rate monitors in athletes: a prospective study:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732081