User manuals and guides for Shimmer products.
General
Getting started, the platform and its accessories, the LogAndStream firmware (logging, streaming, configuration, synchronised logging and the SD data), and the hardware in detail.
Answers to the questions support is asked most often: Bluetooth, firmware, LEDs, SD cards, licences, export and signal quality.
Hardware Guides
Sensor, expansion board, dock and accessory guides for Shimmer3 and Shimmer3R.
Accelerometers, gyroscope and magnetometer: how they work, how to use their data, calibrating them, and the sensors' ranges and rates.
Measuring ECG with the ExG unit: leads and electrode placement, configuration, signal quality and heart rate.
Measuring EMG with the ExG unit: electrode positioning, configuration and common signal processing.
Galvanic skin response: measurement ranges, electrodes, skin resistance, and the 3.5 mm jack for optical pulse sensing.
Prototyping boards for connecting your own analog, I2C, SPI and serial sensors.
Programming and debugging Shimmer3 firmware with a JTAG or Spy-Bi-Wire tool.
Measuring pulse with the optical finger probe or ear clip through the 3.5 mm jack, and converting PPG to heart rate.
Connecting your own analog, SPI, serial and parallel-bus sensors through the Shimmer's external connector.
Load cells, strain gauges and resistance measurement with the Bridge Amplifier+ unit, and calibrating them.
For firmware developers and repair: the connector and processor pin assignments for Shimmer3 and Shimmer3R, the Shimmer3 mainboard's block diagram and power switching, the Bluetooth radio, the microSD data path, the battery charger and LED conventions.
Software
The Consensys user guide, and the MATLAB and LabVIEW instrument drivers.
Installing and licensing Consensys, programming firmware, logging to SD, streaming over Bluetooth, calibrating sensors, and managing, processing and exporting data.
Streaming from Shimmer devices into MATLAB: installation, the driver classes, examples, synchronisation, orientation, ExG and Verisense.
The LabVIEW instrument driver library: example and integrated VIs, heart-rate converters and synchronisation.
Sample data
Example recordings from Shimmer3 units, to try software and analysis before your own data arrives.
Skin conductance and optical pulse recorded with a Shimmer3 GSR+ unit.
White papers and brochures
Background reading on Shimmer products and their use in research.
Using the Shimmer3 EBio unit to monitor patients in COVID-19 clinical trials (2020).
A concept paper on continuous wearable monitoring for COVID-19 patients (April 2020).
