Last Updated on August 1, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Udo Berndts example with the Apple Health Auto Export app & Home Assistant & InfluxDB:
shows in an impressive way, that it is not too difficult to stream physiological data into InfluxDB.
Smartwatch data are only of limited use for scientific studies:
And the Apple watch is a high-tech development of a high-tech company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
We suppose that it is why it seems to be relatively simple to stream Apple watch data into InfluxDB. But if someone like Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
studies for many years products based on the ADS1299 EEG chip from Texas Instruments, and still has not found what he is looking for, is it not time to change something? And that is:
- reading papers about physiological multi-sensor devices based on InfluxDB.
- starting soldering
- starting coding
And if we go for instance to such a library:
https://infozentrum.ethz.ch/en
which is open access, where we find papers which google search does not find in full-text. We think for a physiologist like Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org, it is much more interesting and also much more promising to start studying this new architecture now. What was at the beginning a bit frightening, becomes now more interesting. It takes time to study this architecture. But after years of frustration where we did not find what we where looking for, we think this is the way to go for developers at the university level, who are not interested in the next robot toy based on OpenBCI.