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AuthorTouati, Farid
AuthorErdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand
AuthorMehmood, Waiser
AuthorHassan, Ammad
AuthorMnaouer, Adel Ben
AuthorGaabab, Brahim
AuthorRasid, Mohd Fadlee A.
AuthorKhriji, Lazhar
Available date2017-01-16T11:11:04Z
Publication Date2015-09-01
Publication NameInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/645781
Citation"An Experimental Performance Evaluation and Compatibility Study of the Bluetooth Low Energy Based Platform for ECG Monitoring in WBANs" Farid Touati, Ochirkhand Erdene-Ochir, Waiser Mehmood, Ammad Hassan, Adel Ben Mnaouer, Brahim Gaabab, Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid, Lazhar Khriji International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Vol 11, Issue 9
ISSN1550-1329
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/5173
AbstractA long term healthcare monitoring system requires battery operated devices with low-power technologies. Researchers tried to adapt various short-range technologies for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in ubiquitous health monitoring. The classical Bluetooth is known for its greedy power consumption, IrDA and NFC require line-of-sight conditions, and ANT has weak coexistence features and interference issues. A typical choice remains ZigBee/6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4 based solutions in WBANs because of their low-power consumption. However, the recently proposed Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) announced more compelling features in various aspects. Only few studies have been published supporting these claims on BLE. In this paper, we present a BLE based remote healthcare monitoring platform and we study its compatibility for ECG monitoring. ECG data requires continuous and real-time transmissions, making it particularly challenging for resource constrained devices. In our system, a BLE112 module from Bluegiga and a BLE USB dongle are used for WBAN. The performance of the system is evaluated experimentally and the results showed good potential of this proposed BLE platform in meeting the main QoS requirements of medical applications in terms of throughput, end-to-end delay, and packet error rate, while staying energy efficient.
SponsorThis paper was made possible by NPRP Grant no. 4-1207-2-474 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation).
Languageen
PublisherSAGE publications
SubjectHealth monitoring system
Healthcare
Energy Efficiency
TitleAn Experimental Performance Evaluation and Compatibility Study of the Bluetooth Low Energy Based Platform for ECG Monitoring in WBANs
TypeArticle
Issue Number9
Volume Number11
ESSN1550-1477
dc.accessType Open Access


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