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

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...

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Main Authors: Touati, Farid, Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand, Mehmood, Waiser, Hassan, Ammad, Mnaouer, Adel Ben, Gaabab, Brahim, A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee, Khriji, Lazhar
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Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.437212016-08-08T09:52:59Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43721/ An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs Touati, Farid Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand Mehmood, Waiser Hassan, Ammad Mnaouer, Adel Ben Gaabab, Brahim A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee Khriji, Lazhar 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 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 Blue giga 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43721/1/An%20Experimental%20Performance%20Evaluation%20and.pdf Touati, Farid and Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand and Mehmood, Waiser and Hassan, Ammad and Mnaouer, Adel Ben and Gaabab, Brahim and A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee and Khriji, Lazhar (2015) An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015. art. no. 645781. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1550-1329; ESSN: 1550-1477 http://dsn.sagepub.com/content/11/9/645781.full.pdf+html 10.1155/2015/645781
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description 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 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 Blue giga 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.
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author Touati, Farid
Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand
Mehmood, Waiser
Hassan, Ammad
Mnaouer, Adel Ben
Gaabab, Brahim
A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee
Khriji, Lazhar
spellingShingle Touati, Farid
Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand
Mehmood, Waiser
Hassan, Ammad
Mnaouer, Adel Ben
Gaabab, Brahim
A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee
Khriji, Lazhar
An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
author_facet Touati, Farid
Erdene-Ochir, Ochirkhand
Mehmood, Waiser
Hassan, Ammad
Mnaouer, Adel Ben
Gaabab, Brahim
A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee
Khriji, Lazhar
author_sort Touati, Farid
title An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
title_short An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
title_full An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
title_fullStr An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
title_full_unstemmed An experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANs
title_sort experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ecg monitoring in wbans
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43721/1/An%20Experimental%20Performance%20Evaluation%20and.pdf
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http://dsn.sagepub.com/content/11/9/645781.full.pdf+html
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