An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs

• Main Authors: Touati, Farid, Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand, Mehmood, Waiser, Hassan, Ammad, Mnaouer, Adel Ben, Gaabab, Brahim, A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee, Khriji, Lazhar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43721/1/An%20Experimental%20Performance%20Evaluation%20and.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43721/; http://dsn.sagepub.com/content/11/9/645781.full.pdf+html

A 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 consumpti...