Last Updated on February 3, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
At least three research institutes made a big effort to validate the accuracy of sports sensors:
- The Cleveland in Ohio
2. Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation Deakin University,
Australia
3. The MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS) to
review this topic as objectively as possible.
4. Other reserach institutes with highly accurate devices.
- All these tester seem to be very interested in wrist-based optical heart rate watches. But both of them failed to to have a break-trough for a sustainable scientific validation of sports sensors. Nobody else has done this before at that scale with that expensive devices.
But how does Garmin, Polar and Apple validate the accuracy of their sports sensors? With two Polar H10 chest straps? Certainly now.
We are convinced, that they have the most accurate devices which are available we guess, that they have built those themselves. As we are close to start to build such devices ourselves.
But what is really strange are the many chest strap validators, and that only view have used high quality research and medical grade reference devices. It seems that they would do this in the interests of the sports sensor manufacturer.
Who does not want to have sports watches which are validated with the most accurate reference devices? The sports sensor companies.
But not the costumers which are enlightened by the MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND (MRIS). We are convinced that they as we wish to have sports sensor accuracy validation studies at the highest accuracy level.
But not Rob ter Horst. His choice for the accuracy reference device seems strange to us personally. We can hardly believe that a scientist at the level of Rob ter Horst chooses two Polar H10 strap as his only and most accurate reference device.