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Bye bye Garmin, hello Polar (from Finland)
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To be fair, the polar H10 uses the Bluetooth heart rate profile which is very widespread and already built into many dev libraries like zephyr.
Polar seems indeed very good with data export, probably coming from the fact that they were first a research company so being able to export data is very important!
100% on using BT hr, I think that it shows that it was an intentional choice though. Even their H7 was a BT sensor as well, and that (along with the m450) was over 10 years ago - and while it came with the m450, it was early BLE (at the time, "Bluetooth Smart").
I'd have to agree that it was an intentional design choice that pairs with their roots, this is one of the reasons why I've been a fan for so long.
Not that I would ditch a Garmin if I had one just to switch, but I'd definitely say polar should be in the running when someone does need hardware.
Not Bluetooth in general. There are specific Bluetooth or BLE profiles instituted by the Bluetooth SIG that makes standards on how to format certain data so that it can be universally read as long as a device supports that profile. There are BLE profiles for SPO2, activity tracking (that nobody uses because they all use proprietary crap because it is faster to implement), as well as audio and like 50 different niches that Bluetooth is used in. It's quite cool.
Though I didn't realize that polar actually were the people driving getting it adopted! https://www.bluetooth.org/docman/handlers/downloaddoc.ashx?doc_id=239865 it was adopted in 2011 so maybe they even pushed for it specifically because of the m450
I know, I'm pointing out that they were early adopters with Bluetooth smart (now BLE), leading from the m450 & h7 to the h10.