The accuracy value of 99.6 % of the Polar H10 is not the accuracy value against a motion artifact free ECG device

Last Updated on July 7, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

Accuracy of Polar H10 & Holder ECG against peak detection methods

The mentioned study says only something about the accuracy of the algorithms of the Polar H10, and says nothing about the accuracy of the Polar H10 against a high quality motion artifact free ECG device.

The Polar H10 was not tested against a high quality motion artifact free ECG device:

Use Motion Artifact Free ECG Devices for Validation of Heart Rate Monitors

in the study mentioned above.

Two other studies use high quality ECG devices as reference device:

One study says, that a Polar H7 chest strap is the closest to an ECG device used in clinical research, followed by an Apple watch:

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

A second study using a g.Nautilus references devices says, that the Polar OH1 can be used instead of an ECG device as far as accuracy is concerned:

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