Last Updated on January 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
- Nobody published a paper which tested the 50 000 USD g.tec device against the Polar H10 yet, but if the g.tec device would be more accurate than a Polar H10 chest strap, we are convinced, that someone would have published a paper about it.
- The answer of the g.tec medical support to our question:
«Unfortunately, we know of no manufacturer who can manage ECG motion artifacts»
- Adinstruments says, their Equivital with LabChart software which costs around 13 000 USD has noise and motion artifact free ECG.
- But we do not know of anyone who tested this setup against a Polar H10 chest strap.
- Who wants to spend around 10 000 USD for the Adinstruments Labchart 8 Pro software plus Adinstruments Equivital sensor belt to compare it to a 90 USD Polar H10 chest strap?
- And even if someone would write a paper about it, we suppose that cardiologists would reject it, since the Adinstruments Equivital is a 2 lead ECG, and not a 3 lead ECG device, which is according to a paper from Dr. Milind Desais group at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio gold standard for HR measurement.
- If sports scientists wanted to have a reference device which is more accurate than a Polar H10 chest and is also accepted by cardiologists, they could have it. But it would have to be developed first and tested. And this is a job engineers can to better than sports scientists. But they seem not to be interested in it either, to this date.