Last Updated on February 8, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
According to our own little experience, OpenBCI 3 lead ECG with HeartPy.
We do not know of anyone who confirms that he has tested this device and uses it. But the setup is easy to use OpenBCI GUI with .csv files, and process the .csv files with HeartPy, so that we think it is worth to give it a try, to try out if it works. Another solution which can be used is iWorx TA220 with the the iWorx ECG toolbox. This is a setup which was used and can be used to write papers, since it was already used in papers, which are listed in the iWorx documentation. The iWorx ECG toolbox is well illustrated in a YouTube video and seems easy to use. Unfortunately, it does not allow scripting. And we do not know if the iWorx setup is worth the extra costs. The only advantage we can see at the moment for our application which speaks for the iWorx setup is that it has already been used in papers and has been confirmed that works for this purpose. But we cannot see a reason with a 3 lead OpenBCI ECG device with HeartPy should not be as good as the iWorx setup.
According to Paul von Gents GITHUB, he is a good coder with many followers:
https://github.com/paulvangentcom
and according the picture on his GITHUB also a coder which has sense of humor.
We do not know much about papers which where written about the Python toolbox HeartPy:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OOhuA6gAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
since we did not study those. Paul von Gent has published HeartPy in the journal: “Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour“, a journal from which we do not know if it is good, since we do not know anything about Transportation research.
But does a PhD which writes a PhD thesis about a toolbox for PPG and ECG signals not choose the optimal open source software which is currently available for this purpose? And did he open source HeartPy, since only companies like iWorx seem to be able to make money out of PPG and ECG toolboxes.
Of the researchers we know, only Hugo Plácido da Silva from BITalino tries to make money out of ECG toolboxes. But is he successful in this?
Paul van Gent decided against it, and is now Software Engineer at FreshMinds ICT Consultancy,
The Randstad, Netherlands:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-van-gent-3b5b5817/
Paul van Gent found a job at Randstad to make money out of it. Randstad is a company which is a company which we know also in Switzerland, which seems to offer jobs from which it is easier to make money out of than from selling heart rate toolboxes, as Hugo Plácido da Silva tries it, and Randstad seem to be a company which is successful also in Switzerland, since Randstad currently offers 1200 jobs in Switzerland: