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by kbre93 1002 days ago
Hey no worries and thanks. It was a break-through for this project to find the H10 gives accelerometer data as well as heart rate, so that it would be possible to estimate breathing rate, which I haven't seen other apps do
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Isn't it possible to estimate breathing rate with any optical heart rate monitor? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmogram#Monitoring_..., afaik that's how Fitbit, Apple Watch etc do it
Yes it's common to estimate breathing rate based on the oscillations in the heart rate pattern. But estimating it from the chest expansion is a more direct method
I never knew the H10 used an accelerometer, I wonder if they use it to help remove false reads during intense movements like those found in running.