Scientists failed to establish a generally accepted standard for sports sensor accuracy validation

Last Updated on January 30, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We have three scientists who did sports sensor accuracy validation studies:

1. Cardiologist Dr. Milind Desai from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio:

Cardiologist Dr. Milind Desai from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio on the very popular YouTube Channel of the Cleveland Clinic with 480 000 subscribers and 16’327’584 views to this date

2. Thomas Wyss, PhD. Assistant rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM:

Thomas Wyss, PhD. Assistant rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM

3.) Rob ter Horst, founder of the YouTube channel “the Quantitative Scientist” & Post-Doctoral Researcher at CeMM Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Rob ter Horst, founder of the YouTube channel “the Quantitative Scientist”, Post-Doctoral Researcher at CeMM Research Institute for Molecular Medicine, Vienna, Austria, & facilities of the CeMM & papers of Rob ter Horst

We have three scientist from three different research institutes from around the world who did sports sensor accuracy validation studies, and there are many more, as you can see on this list:

090. Review of Accuracy Studies of Consumer Grade Heart Rate Monitors: Methods, Testing Protocols, Reference Devices

Unfortunately, these three scientists who are very influential failed to establish a generally accepted standard to validate sports sensors which is accepted all over the world with standard methods, standard protocols and reference devices.

Especially with the latest sports sensor watches, we do not have the data for all watches tested with the best equipment which is available, which are research and medical grade ECG devices:

90.02 Research & medical grade ECG devices which some of those were used to study the accuracy of consumer grade HRMs in different papers

to test their accuracy.

This is an unsatisfying situation for scientists who want to use these devices for scientific studies.