The accuracy of optical heart rate sensors for sporting activities has increased in recent years, but we know only of little development for those for research and clinical applications

Last Updated on January 23, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The only development of which we know is HeartPy from Paul van Gent, Delft University of Technology the Netherlands:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OOhuA6gAAAAJ&hl=it

and Peter H. Charlton from University of Cambridge which uses HeartPy:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=BJjD81oAAAAJ&hl=en

but we know only of his YouTube examples about it.

And Talha Iqbal from the University of Galway, Ireland Galway which uses HeartPy:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q_TIh-MAAAAJ&hl=en

but we know only of his YouTube examples about it, either.

But we promote to use and develop HeartPy all the same. We did not test and reviewed HeartPy in detail. One advantage of optical heart rate sensors is that they are much more comfortable to wear than ECG devices. But what is the reason that Peter Charlton and Talha Iqbal only publised demos about HeartPy on YouTube, and Paul van Gent published HeartPy in Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour? Have these projects been given up by these researchers?