The Swiss Federal Institute of Sports SFISM wrote a paper about the Polar H10 accuracy which was partly funded by Polar in Finnland, but why was not the best ECG device from Schiller Switzerland chosen to test against it which is the Schiller CS 200 ECG treadmill?

Last Updated on April 6, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

A paper which was partly funded by Polar Finnland:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219

Is used by Rob ter Horst PhD. as a scientific justification to choose the Polar H10 has his reference device:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31004219

But as Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has written here, this is controversial:

You want to test smartwatches against a medical or research grade reference device – use a Schiller CS 200 Ergospirometry Diagnostic Equipment as your reference device

SCHILLER AG is a global medical technology group with headquarters in Baar in Switzerland:

https://www.schiller.ch/de-ch

SCHILLER is a leader in the development and production of devices for heart and lung diagnostics, patient monitoring and defibrillation. The instruments are manufactured at the headquarters in Baar (CH), in Wissembourg (FR), Niederlauer and Bitz (DE). SCHILLER has around 30 subsidiaries and around 100 sales partners worldwide. SCHILLER employs around 1,400 people.”

If you want to have medical or research grade device for accuracy tests use a Schiller CS 200 Ergospirometry Diagnostic Equipment as your reference device:

This Schiller CS-200 Touch Stress System with Treadmillis available for 23 000 USD in the Dr’s Toy Store:

Schiller CS-200 Touch Stress System with Treadmill

As a logical consequence of the findings of the paper from Magglingen which is mentioned above, the Polar H10 should be more accurate than Schiller CS-200 Touch Stress System with Treadmill which costs 23 000 USD? This is hard to believe.

Is it not time for the Swiss Federal Institute of Sports in Magglingen to write a new paper about the Polar H10 which is tested against a Schiller CS-200 Touch Stress System with Treadmilland publishes a new paper?

Or the Swiss Federal Instititute of Technology in Zurich or Lausanne? Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org is convinced that there are researchers in Switzerland who have such a treadmill from Schiller and are ready to co-operate to write a new paper with this device to compare it’s accuracy to the Polar H10.