Tutorial May 5, 2026 8 min read

Build a Heart Rate Monitor with the Beam AI API

Step-by-step tutorial: capture webcam frames, send them to the rPPG API, and display live BPM. Working JavaScript code — from zero to heart rate monitor in under 80 lines.

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Comparison May 3, 2026 9 min read

rPPG vs Contact PPG: When to Use Contactless Heart Rate Monitoring

Camera-based and wearable heart rate monitoring share the same physics but live in very different deployment realities. Accuracy comparison, failure modes, and a decision matrix for choosing the right approach for your application.

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Deep Dive May 2, 2026 7 min read

How Camera-Based Heart Rate Detection Works

Your webcam can detect your heartbeat. Here's the rPPG pipeline from first principles — blood flow, light absorption, signal extraction, motion artifact rejection — and why wrapping it in an API is the right engineering call.

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Technical April 1, 2026 8 min read

How Camera-Based rPPG SDKs Work — A Developer's Guide

Remote photoplethysmography explained for developers. From face detection and ROI extraction to FFT-based heart rate calculation — plus a full SDK integration walkthrough and accuracy comparison against Binah.ai, NuraLogix, and Shen AI.

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