Last Updated on June 26, 2026 by pg@petergamma.org
According to our own little experience development of these devices is very slow. Although what is striking for instance is the many demos of g.tec medical on YouTube. What is wrong with this company? Is this a sign that this company is at the end of the line? No new developments from g.tec anymore, except for prodects from Demomakers such as the Unicorn Black, based on an outdated architecture?
Schiller Medical Switzerland shows no signs that this company is at the end of the line. But a treadmill, an ECG device, a spirometer and a personal computer for 26 000 USD, what has the Schiller CS 200 ECG treadmill more to offer? If we see that welfare supported people in Zürich drive around with Porsche Cayennes for obervational reasons, then why should the City of Zurich not spend 26 000 USD for a CS 200 treadmill? Money does not seem to matter in the City of Zurich. But what is with other cities around the world?
But where we saw a new developments was in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam and India. In these countries we often find developers which are on a budget. Can people in these countries afford these expensive equipments, a EEG headset from g.tec with 32 channels for 50 000 USD? And maybe these countries will be the first to optimize costs for these expensive devices.
For instance the costs for the CS 200 could be dramatically reduced by using a curved wood treadmills. These curved treadmills costs much less, but are as robust as the devices which seem to be handmade somewhere in Europe or in the United States. And curved wood treadmill are now available also imported from China for a view thousand dollars.
But until a devices such as the C200 is replaced by a new one, it takes time. But if we look at the personal computer which is integrated into the CS 200, is it not a device from the stone age of personal computers? Is it so difficult to build such a CS 200 device new from scratch?
New personal computers are cheap in the year 2026. What was updated in the CS 200 was that it was updated to 16 ECG channels. Was it the outdated ADS1299 chip from Texas Instruments they used for this, which is not yet used in combination with InfluxDB?
If we look for instance at Home Assistant which is based on InfluxDB, there are already different integrations for smartwatches. So it seems quiet easy to stream physiological data such as the heart rate into Home Assistant wich is based on InfluxDB. Is it a big step from there to add 32 EEG chips to build a 32 channel EEG device based on InfluxDB?
The electronic engineers from India are among the most skilled onces to optimize costs for electronic devices. But these are not the most innovative ones as will. But it is not about building completely new devices. It is only about optimizing costs.