Talk:Heart rate monitor

Invention
I though that the HRM was invented in Finland. Polar Electro claim they were selling the first ones in 1982. I bought my first one in the late 90's, therefore it doesn't make sense to claim that Robert Treffene appeared on a television show (The New Inventors) which only appeared in 2004.--JBellis 17:44, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

According to Polar: "The first EKG accurate wireless heart rate monitor was invented by Polar back in 1977 as a training tool for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski Team." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Highest quality made by polar?
The line about the highest quality heart rate monitors being made by Polar sounds like an ad, not a line from an encyclopedia. It seems utterly inappropriate. --Pmetzger 21:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I concur 206.201.190.68 (talk) 13:54, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Link to Polar's about site
There's a link to polar's about page on their website. It turns out the paragraph before that reference link is taken straight from their webpage. That sounds a little biased to me. 208.101.110.170 17:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)


 * "bias is not in itself reason to remove text, because in some articles all additions are likely to express bias. Instead, material that balances the bias should be added, and sources should be found per WP:V." -- Neutral point of view/FAQ policy. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 21:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Nothing about how heart rate is measured by these sensors
The article lacks any information for how the sensors can measure the heart rate. Is it acoustic? Electrical? What are the advantages of each method? What kind of errors can you expect from consumer grade sensors? Any of that information from an expert would be most welcome! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.70.52.162 (talk) 16:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed - this is why I came to this article. I know they work, but HOW? 99.245.230.104 (talk) 18:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Agreeing as well - somebody please add some info on that! --Fixuture (talk) 21:35, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Feasibility of remote heartbeat sensors
I noticed that the article stated that the Modern Warfare heartbeat sensor technology was fictional. Well, sort of. I found this article while researching the topic, but don't feel like editing the article itself right now: http://www.designnews.com/article/11227-Hand_held_radar_device_detects_breathing_heartbeats.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.185.51.167 (talk) 23:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Redirect "heartbeat sensor" here
Redirecting heartbeat sensor to this page is a deliberate FU to anyone looking for information about both the fictional and the possibility of the real-world device. I'm going to delete the redirect. Anybody looking specifically for a heartbeat "sensor" is not looking for information about a heart rate "monitor," so a new page is required, not a redirect here. 121.221.242.164 (talk) 08:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Then the solution is to write a real article, if you have real sources to demonstrate that there's any meaningful distinction between a "sensor" and a "monitor". There's no reason to delete the redirect in the meantime, because redirects can be overwritten and it's not necessary to start from an empty redlink to create a new article. Bearcat (talk) 21:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Added Infrared heart rate monitors
Added information on more modern heart rate monitors, most of which can be found in a store these days. Cited the same source twice, since I am unsure as to whether we need to cite multiple claims within one source multiple times or not. Please remove the extraneous reference. (http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.2475.pdf)

Techno156 (talk) 09:12, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't have the time to look closely, but it appears that the reference doesn't actually verify much of the information. It also looks like very poor research. I'm sure we can find much better sources. --Ronz (talk) 15:20, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

There are also smartphones with an inbuilt heart rate monitor - not just the receiver
For instance the Samsung Galaxy S5 has a heart rate monitor next to the camera. In the composition section there is just talk about smartphones being a receiver of monitors but not them being monitors themselves. Could somebody please fix that? Also it would be nice if there was more info on monitors such as the one built into the S5.

--Fixuture (talk) 21:35, 5 October 2016 (UTC)