Can Fitbit and Apple Watch Do What Dhyana Does? Dhyana began as a scientific project to capture heart rate variability. The link between heart rate variability (HRV) and the Autonomous Nervous System (ANS) has been well established, with the scientific community agreeing that high frequency variations in heart rate variability correlated to less stress. We were tasked by a German multinational to look into HRV in those who meditated. While there was a lot of research already conducted, they had requested us for more data for an analytical study on the affects of meditation. While working on this project we began by looking tools for acquiring this data. To do so, we visited the Hong Kong Trade Development Conference in 2017 and were offered many smart watches, which could calculate heart rate. Apart from hundreds of Chinese watches we also had the Apple Watch, FitBit, Garmin, Goquii, MiBand, Honor Band and so on. These devices also started to give us heart rate data; but as we co...
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