Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

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Accuracy comparison Stryd, Garmin foot pod and open source foot pod (WMF)

Posted bypg@petergamma.org

Last Updated on January 21, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

For Stryd we got a white paper from Fellnr about its accuracy:

https://fellrnr.com/wiki/Stryd

From DC Rainmaker we know a calibrated foot pod is as accurate as a Stryd, for the open source foot pod WMF), we only have a table with 5 numbers:

Comparison of average steps per minute for Stryd, Garmin foot pod, and Open Source Foot Pod (WMF):

From our own little experience we know, that the WMF inaccuracy is in the range of an uncalibrated foot pod. For walking meditation, some finer tuning, calibration and more comparison data to other foot pods might be sufficient. But can we convince the Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen to use the open source foot pod WMF?