Last Updated on January 30, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
We do not know. We are interested since several years to find a highly accurate heart rate monitor devices, which are little controversial and can be used also for clinical and research applications. We do not need urgently such a device, but we are interested in in it on the long-term.
If we look at the different devices, and we are physiologists, than we ask ourselves, is a single lead ECG device with 12 bit A/D conversion sufficient for our purpose?
We would like also be accepted by Peter H. Charlton from the University of Cambridge. We did not yet study the scientific literature about this topic in detail, but as far as we know, this requires at least an iWorx IX-TA-220 device.
We have currently do not have any plans to do clinical studies, but we would like to have a device which is suitable for this purpose. As we said before, we did not study the literature about this topic in detail, but we are looking for a device which can at least be valdiated for clinical and research applications. For this reason, we see no reason to buy an iWorx ECG toolbox, or a Matlab licence with a Matlab ECG toolbox. As far as we can judge, it is not so difficult to build such a device from scratch. The longer we study these devices, we see them through.
For us personally we cannot find a device on the market which fits our needs. Most of them are expensive, and we think what they do, we can build this as well. For us personally, the most interesting would be a single-lead ECG with 16 bit or higher A/D conversion which is attached to InfluxDB and can be processed in Python. The advantage of InfluxDB is, that we think it is possible to build multi-sensor devices on this way, for a 3-lead ECG device, which can also be used for clinical and research application.
We are physiologists, and not soft- and hardware developers. We will start to solder and code as late as possible. But if necessary we will do it. Therefore we describe it here as an issue, that a device which is interesting for us personally, is not available. We are not looking for an engineer who is looking for a job to build this for us.
More interesting would be an Adafruit instruction how to build multi-sensor physiological devices. Unfortunately, we could not find such an instruction to this date. The easiest instruction we could find is the instruction from How To Electronics about an ECG device which is attached to Ubdots. We suppose that this instruction can also be found at other places, preferentially in a paper.
The goal would be to attach this ECG device to Home Assistant/InfluxDB. We could also attach it directly to InfluxDB, but to this date, we found only instructions how to attach it to Home Assistant/InfluxDB.We are amateurs when it comes to software and hardware development, and if we find a developer which is ahead on this path compared to us, we will follow his path. Currently, we can follow the Instruction from How To Electronics in India how to attach an ECG device to Ubdots.
But we miss an instruction how to attach this ECG device to Home Assistant/InfuxDB.