How to join OpenBCI data with foot pod data in a single database?

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

• There is a paper which studies the brain waves on a treadmill and compared brain waves during forward walking versus backward walking:

Paper for Walking Meditation Studies: Backward Walking Induces Significantly Larger Upper-Mu-Rhythm Suppression Effects Than Forward Walking Does

• The authors used the Texas Instruments ADS1299 EEG Front-End Performance Demonstration Kit (TI-ADS1299EEG-FE) to measure EEG signals.

• The paper compares brain waves during backward walking versus forward walking

• Unfortunately, ANT+ and BLE foot pods and treadmill sensors are very incompatible with EEG devices.

– To bring data from all of these devices into a single database is very difficult

• the easiest application to access sensor data from foot pods and treadmill speed sensors is a training tracker

We have a paper which compares brain waves on a treadmill during forward walking versus backward walking. It would be interesting, to have data also from a foot pod and from a treadmill for this purpose. Unfortunately, ANT+ and BLE footpods and treadmill speed sensors are very difficult to join in a single database, as we have discussed previously. We have to give these devices up. We can build open source OpenBCI foot pods. But this is very difficult. We have to build them from scratch.