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uECG can be a standard BLE heart rate monitor now!

A project log for uECG - small open source wireless ECG sensor

It's cheap, doesn't use a specialized heart rate AFE and can blink LEDs with your pulse :)

olya-gryOlya Gry 07/21/2021 at 12:490 Comments

We have been thinking for a long time how to make uECG more accessible, in the sense of making it user-friendly - data processing, a nice multi-functional UI, a cloud for storing user data... But dreams don't always hurry to come true...

Anyway, in the new uECG version we wanted to do something for everyday use. So we did just that.

Now uECG can connect as a standard Bluetooth heart rate monitor and display heart rate and RR intervals in a standard format. That is, if you use running app in which you can connect devices / fitness trackers, then you can now add uECG there and monitor heart rate changes - and if the app supports this function, then also the RR intervals!

We cannot name specific apps because this is considered using someone else's brand for advertising purposes - but we've tested a few popular ones and they all work. In theory, any app of this type should understand our data format - we made a short video of how this works in some of them.

You can also add uECG support into your own apps much more easily now (we'll write some documentation on this, once we have some time).

With that, we have at least made uECG more approachable!

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