Reliability Assessment of New and Updated Consumer-Grade Activity and Heart Rate Monitors

Oniani, Salome; Woolley, Sandra I.; Miguel Pires, Ivan; Garcia, Nuno M.; Collins, Tim; Ledger, Sean; Pandyan, Anand

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to address the need for reliability assessments of new and updated consumer-grade activity and heart rate monitoring devices. This issue is central to the use of these sensor devices and it is particularly important in their medical and assisted living application. Using an example lightweight empirical approach, experimental results for heart rate acquisitions from Garmin VivoSmart 3 (v4.10) smartwatch monitors are presented and analyzed. The reliability issues of optically-acquired heart rates, especially during periods of activity, are demonstrated and discussed. In conclusion, the paper recommends the empirical assessment of new and updated activity monitors, the sharing of this data and the use of version information across the literature.

Citation

Oniani, S., Woolley, S. I., Miguel Pires, I., Garcia, N. M., Collins, T., Ledger, S., & Pandyan, A. (2018). Reliability Assessment of New and Updated Consumer-Grade Activity and Heart Rate Monitors.

• Conference Name: SENSORDEVICES 2018: The Ninth International Conference on Sensor Device Technologies and Applications
• Conference Location: Venice
• Start Date: Sep 16, 2018
• End Date: Sep 20, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 16, 2018
• Pages: 77-82
• Series Title: IARIA SENSORDEVICES 2018
• Keywords: wearable sensing, activity monitoring, ambulatory heart rate, inter-instrument reliability
• Publisher URL: https://www.thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=sensordevices_2018_5_10_28011