Last Updated on August 26, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Is there a violation of competition laws in the US, EU, UK, China, Canada & Switzerland for EEG devices up to 50 000 USD? Is there not a trend of the world that electronics components become better and more affordable?
But is this also the case for EEG devices up to 50 000 (g.tec medical multi- purpose headset with 32 channels still costs 50 000 USD:
Starting from the Muse headband which does not have an SDK anymore, to www.openbci.com who does not repair the WIFI shield since hears, and www.openbci.com who is against devices such as the TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit. „Can you not understand that we only have an income from selling electronics components?“, was the answer when we asked a question in the www.openbci.com forum regarding this kit. Also the EEVGLOG made us retreat from the TI ADS1299 EEG demo kit for physiology:
And then Adam Feuers HackEEG with the TI ADS1299. A demo which was very sophisticated, but then was not available anymore soon after it was released. And now Illdar Rakmuldin s PiEEG. The release date was postponed for around a year after PiEEG was introduced. And now that it is available, hardly anyone seems to buy it. And we do not know of independent tests of PiEEG which proofs it s function.
All of this lets us ask the question, if there is a violation of competition laws in the US, EU, UK, China, Canada & Switzerland for EEG devices up to 50 000 USD? Even if there would be such a violation, we suppose this would be difficult to proof.
But still although we where looking since years for new and affordable devices for EEG devices up to 32 channel, we do not find those. Whe calculated the hardware costs for a 32 channel device based on InfluxDB to starting from around 700 USD on www.petergamma.org.
In the example of Home Assistant we can see that a multi-sensor device based on InfluxDB is not too difficult anymore. So is there a free and open-source platform as Home Assistant for physiological sensors as well ?We do not know of such a platform.