Affordable Research Grade ECG devices

1. Polar OH1 can be used instead of an ECG device for some applications:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0217288

  • Polar SDK
  • Polar Sensor Logger App
  • HeartPy – Python Heart Rate Analysis

2. Polar H7/10 can be used instead of an ECG device for some applications:

– Polar H10 is used as a reference device in this paper:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03187457/file/OH1.pdf

“Overall, the Polar H7 Chest Strap had the highest agreement with the ECG (rc=98)”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732081/

  • Polar SDK
  • Polar Sensor Logger App
  • HeartPy – Python Heart Rate Analysis

3. Scott W. Harden Sound Card ECG

Scott Harden, MD. PhD. is a biological research scientist with a passion for collaborative public software and hardware development.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305693497_Validation_of_PC-based_Sound_Card_with_Biopac_for_Digitalization_of_ECG_Recording_in_Short-term_HRV_Analysis

  • Scott offers software in Windows an Python for his device

4. Bitalino Biomedical Tookit

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498399/

  • Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Add-on
  • Python Toolbox for Heart Rate Variability
  • Matlab Toolbox

5. Biosignalsplux Solo 16 bit data acquisition system

software:

  • Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Add-on
  • Python Toolbox for Heart Rate Variability
  • Matlab Toolbox

6. iWorks IX-214R

– on ebay starting from 300 USD, refurbished 1000 USD, new 2000 USD

  • Matlab
  • Octave
  • Matlab toolbox for cardiovascular signal processing

A benchmarking of these devices against each other would be helpful, and also of the different software components which they can used with.