SyBBURE alumnus, Orlando Hoilett writes for Hackaday about the reliability of consumer-grade and research-grade wrist-worn heart rate monitors

Orlando graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. He was a member of the SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate Research Program from 2012-2014 and did research on peroxide detection in microfluidic pumps and electrical resistance measurements of the blood-brain barrier. He recently wrote an article Hackaday comparing the accuracy of consumer-grade and research-grade wrist-worn heart rate monitors based on the work of researchers at The Big Ideas Lab. Some important notes from his article were: skin tone had no effect on the accuracy of the monitors, and the accuracy decreased with increased levels of activity. Surprisingly, research-grade heart rate monitors were less accurate during activity compared to consumer-grade monitors. Read his entire article here: https://hackaday.com/2020/04/07/reliability-check-consumer-and-research-grade-wrist-worn-heart-rate-monitors/