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Kubios HRV ver. 3.4.3 released

Mika Tarvainen — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:11:07 +0000

Version 3.4.3 of Kubios HRV Premium and Standard software has been released. Minor improvements and bug fixes include:

A critical character encoding issue was fixed, which caused certain EDF files not to open in Kubios HRV Premium.
Zero RR interval values are now supported in custom text file import (zero RR values are ignored as obsolete).
Other minor bug fixes.

For more information see:
Release notes | HRV Standard brochure | HRV Premium brochure
New users: Go to Product page to order Kubios HRV
Premium users: Check License Maintenance
Download: Go to Download page to get the update

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Kubios HRV app now released for iOS

Mika Tarvainen — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:36:45 +0000

We are happy to announce that Kubios HRV mobile application is now also released for iOS. The Kubios HRV app brings our heart rate variability (HRV) algorithms, used by scientists all over the world, to everybody for monitoring their own wellbeing. Kubios HRV app has two modes of operation:

Readiness Measurement mode for athletes and individuals who want to monitor changes in their daily readiness status. By doing short (1-5 mins), controlled resting HRV measurements regularly, you will receive reliable information about your physiological recovery, how it changes from day to day, and how your HRV values compare with normal population values. Recovery monitoring is used by professional athletes in training optimization but can also be used by sports enthusiasts or anyone interested in their wellbeing, as it provides objective information about overall bodily stress as well as cardiovascular health.
Custom Measurement mode is designed for researchers, health and wellbeing professionals, and sport scientists for performing various types of HRV recordings. NOTE: This mode runs in demo mode for now, i.e. your data is not stored.

In order to use the app, you need to have a Bluetooth HR sensor supporting RR data. For example, the app is compatible with Polar H10 and OH1 sensors.

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Kubios HRV app now released for Android

Mika Tarvainen — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:59:02 +0000

We are happy to announce that Kubios HRV mobile application is now released for Android (coming soon to iOS). The Kubios HRV app brings our heart rate variability (HRV) algorithms, used by scientists all over the world, to everybody for monitoring their own wellbeing. Kubios HRV app has two modes of operation:

Readiness Measurement mode for athletes and individuals who want to monitor changes in their daily readiness status. By doing short (1-5 mins), controlled resting HRV measurements regularly, you will receive reliable information about your physiological recovery, how it changes from day to day, and how your HRV values compare with normal population values. Recovery monitoring is used by professional athletes in training optimization but can also be used by sports enthusiasts or anyone interested in their wellbeing, as it provides objective information about overall bodily stress as well as cardiovascular health.
Custom Measurement mode is designed for researchers, health and wellbeing professionals, and sport scientists for performing various types of HRV recordings. NOTE: This mode runs in demo mode for now, i.e. your data is not stored.

In order to use the app, you need to have a Bluetooth HR sensor supporting RR data. For example, the app is compatible with Polar H10 and OH1 sensors.

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Kubios HRV ver. 3.4.2 released

Mika Tarvainen — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:53:21 +0000

Version 3.4.2 of Kubios HRV Premium and Standard software has been released. Minor improvements and bug fixes include:

A selection between RR distribution and HR distribution added to the time-domain results tab in the user interface
HR acceleration capacity (AC) and the corresponding modified index (ACmod) added to CSV and SPSS friendly batch file exports
Fixed syntax errors which caused Lomb periodogram computation to fail
Fixed UI issues with display scaling higher than 100%

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Kubios HRV ver. 3.4.1 released

Mika Tarvainen — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:44:44 +0000

Version 3.4.1 of Kubios HRV Premium and Standard software has been released. Minor improvements and bug fixes:

Fixed a bug, which crashed Kubios HRV 3.4.0 during file open if the “Update analysis results” mode was set to “Manual” in software preferences
In macOS version, “Command” key is now used instead of the “Control” key when adding analysis samples or noise markings to data (Command + left mouse button) and when zooming the data axis (Command + mouse scroll wheel)
User home directory is now the default destination for all file save and open actions
Minor bug fixes.

For more information see: Release notes | HRV Standard brochure | HRV Premium brochure New users: Go to Product page to order Kubios HRV Premium users: Check License Maintenance Download: Go to Download page to get the update

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Kubios HRV ver. 3.4 released

Mika Tarvainen — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:10:53 +0000

Version 3.4 of Kubios HRV Premium and Standard software has been released. Highlights of new features (*indicates features available only in the Premium version):

*ECG R-peak (and PPG pulse wave detection) editing tools updated
*Support for noise segments added
*Automatic beat correction algorithm improved
Custom text file import improved
*MIT file format support added
*HR deceleration capacity (DC) and acceleration capacity (AC) parameters added
*TRIMP and energy expenditure (EE) computations improved.

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Kubios HRV Mobile App Coming Soon

Yllapito — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 11:42:54 +0000

We are happy to announce that we are developing a mobile application. The Kubios HRV App will bring our heart rate variability (HRV) algorithms, used by scientists all over the world, to everybody for monitoring their own wellbeing. Kubios HRV App will have two modes of operation:

Recovery Measurement Mode for monitoring changes in your daily recovery status. By doing short (1-5 mins), controlled recovery measurements regularly, you will receive reliable information about your physiological recovery, how it changes from day to day, and how your HRV values compare with normal population values. Recovery monitoring is used by professional athletes in training optimization but can also be used by sports enthusiasts or anyone interested in their wellbeing, as it provides objective information about overall bodily stress as well as cardiovascular health.
Custom Measurement Mode designed for researchers, health and wellbeing professionals, and sport scientists for performing various types of HRV recordings. This measurement mode will support test-subject management, short- and longer-term measurements, live data acquisition through Polar SDK (see explanation below), as well as event markers.

Kubios develops HRV analysis software products (Kubios HRV Standard and Premium) that have achieved gold-standard status in scientific research, used at roughly 1200 universities in 128 countries. Kubios HRV App uses the same HRV algorithms that are used in our desktop software. The main HRV parameters include the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) indexes, the computations of which have been optimized, using a large reservoir of scientific research results, to provide accurate interpretation of recovery and stress.

Kubios HRV App, built with Polar mobile SDK, can read live data from Polar sensors, including ECG and RR data from Polar H10 sensors and live PPG and PPI data from optical Polar OH1 sensors. These data streams are supported in the custom measurement mode, providing an easy-to-use, light-weight, affordable approach for ECG, PPG and RR/PPI recordings. Regarding RR recording, the App supports also other Bluetooth HR sensors available on the market.

We aim to release Kubios HRV App for Android and iOS by the end of the year. The recovery measurement component will be free.

Contact:
Mika Tarvainen
CEO, Kubios Ltd.
mika.tarvainen(at)kubios.com

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Kubios HRV Analysis Service now available for third party applications

Mika Tarvainen — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:56:00 +0000

Are you interested to integrate Kubios heart rate variability (HRV) analysis, the gold-standard HRV analysis algorithms validated in hundreds of scientific studies, into your application?

We are happy to announce that Kubios HRV Analysis Service is now available for third party integrations. Kubios HRV analysis algorithms have been developed during the past 15 years by experienced medical physicists. We have developed state-of-the-art algorithms for pre-processing of HRV recordings, thus we provide reliable HRV analysis in all circumstances. Our proprietary algorithms for parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) indexes provide a powerful tool to evaluate physiological recovery and stress.

Features of Kubios HRV Analysis Service:

Validated HRV analysis since 2004^1,2
Automatic state-of-the-art algorithm for correcting missed, extra and misaligned (including ectopic) beats³
Computation of Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) and Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) indexes, as well as several other commonly used HRV parameters.
Reliable service running in Amazon Web Services (AWS), easy-to-use RESTful API.

¹ Niskanen J-P et al. Software for advanced HRV analysis. Comp Meth Programs Biomed, 76(1):73-81, 2004.
² Tarvainen MP et al. Kubios HRV – Heart rate variability analysis software. Comp Meth Programs Biomed, 113(1):210-220, 2014.
³ Lipponen JA and Tarvainen MP. A robust algorithm for heart rate variability time series artefact correction using novel beat classification. J Med Eng & Technol, 43(3):173-181, 2019.

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Kubios HRV for macOS Catalina now available

Mika Tarvainen — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:40:00 +0000

An update to Kubios HRV Standard and Premium (ver. 3.3.1) compatible with macOS Catalina is now available for download. Please note that you also need to update the Matlab Runtime (MCR), which is also available at the download page.

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Kubios HRV version 3.3.1 released

Mika Tarvainen — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:06:00 +0000

Updates and improvements:

Minor updates to FIT file support, including corrected conversion of FIT Laps to Kubios HRV event markers.
Corrected scaling of cumulative energy expenditure (EE) and training impulse (TRIMP) values for different analysis window lengths

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