/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/smooth-heart-beatsHowdy, Thanks to a comment by YT2095 on my last post, I started thinking that I need to do more averaging to achieve a smoother graph. It turns out that this is very simple to do as the Arduino sketch writes 30 BPM samples per line to the ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/smooth-heart-beatsSun, 06 May 2012 20:07:44 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:c4713328-952d-4526-9dd9-d45aec4f2a65DAB1<p>Hi Drew,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You may need to play around with your averaging levels before you get the best combination for the data.</p><p>You might take a look at running min, max and average analysis and use a least squares fit to see which gives you a close fit.</p><p>If you over filter, sometimes you can miss critical transitions in the data.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just a thought,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=14271&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">