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

Issues with the Vernier Go Direct Respiration Belt Monitor

Last Updated on March 26, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

  • The Vernier belt is one of the most affordable and easiest real-time respiration rate monitor we know
  • The belt can be paired to the Vernier desktop software and measures force and respiration rate in real-time

known issues:

Issue 1:

  • We do not know if it is accurate, and we do not know, if it is more accurate than a Garmin Fenix 6 which is only accurate at 12 breath per minute

Issue 2:

  • The belt continues to measure force and respiration rate for 45 minutes after the belt is removed from the chest.
  • We have described this issue before:
  • We informed John Melville, PhD. Director of Biology, Vernier Software & Technology about the issue, but we do not know if it still exists
  • John Melville says in this demo video, that respiration rate display is delayed, since a rate is calculated:
  • We do not know if this delay affect the respiration rate accuracy

Issue 3

  • Vernier offers an SDK, if the Vernier respiration rate monitor is accurate, we miss a Python example which streams respiration rate data into SQlite and InfluxDB

Issue 4

  • We miss an example which connects the Vernier belt to a Python data analysis software, as for instance to the Neurokit2 software or Home Assistant.