Last Updated on December 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
The Woodway curve is one of the view treadmills from which we can find that scientific papers have been written which uses this device:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=woodway+curve&oq=woodway
How are data obtained from this device to write papers with it? Woodway offers software for this treadmill:
The software is running on a PC is connected over usb to the woodway curved treadmill. We can download and test it in demo mode without a treadmill. During the installation process we can see that it uses sQlite (if i remember correctly). Should devices which cost that much not deliver data which can be used for scientific studies? The woodway curved has, as the papers mentioned above have shown.
The woodway PC software shows:
- time
- speed
- kilo joules
- and other parameter
But can we not additionally add user open components such as
a treadmill motor controlled by an Arduino treadmill controller?
a Raspberry Pi treadmill speed sensor connected to Home Assistant or Python:
and eventually add an uplift mechanism for the Bruce protocol for exercise stress tests:
and control everything with Python and connect it to Home Assistant
And should all of these not also work with these treadmills as well?
This is all a lot of work and if this is done by a company who sells products for scientific studies we estimate the costs if this setup between 14 000 USD and 24 000 USD. But the individual components should not be too difficult to build by skilled developers by themselves which could reduce the costs for these devices dramatically. We miss a community of open source developers for these devices. The devices which are on the market are too expensive for our purpose and we won t buy those.