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

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dc.contributor.authorTouati, Farid
dc.contributor.authorErdene‐Ochir, Ochirkhand
dc.contributor.authorMehmood, Waiser
dc.contributor.authorHassan, Ammad
dc.contributor.authorMnaouer, Adel Ben
dc.contributor.authorGaabab, Brahim
dc.contributor.authorRasid, Mohd Fadlee A.
dc.contributor.authorKhriji, Lazhar
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-01T08:10:27Z
dc.date.available2020-03-01T08:10:27Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionThis article is licensed under Creative Commons License and full text is openly accessible in CUD Digital Repository. The version of the scholarly record of this article is published in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2015), accessible online through this link https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/645781.en_US
dc.description.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. © 2015 Farid Touati et al.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTouati, F., Erdene-Ochir, O., Mehmood, W., Hassan, A., Mnaouer, A. B., Gaabab, B., … Khriji, L. (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. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/645781en_US
dc.identifier.issn15501329
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/645781
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/183
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHindawi Publishing Corporationen_US
dc.relationAuthors Affiliations: Touati, F., Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Al Tarfa, Doha, Qatar; Erdene-Ochir, O., Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Al Tarfa, Doha, Qatar; Mehmood, W., Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Al Tarfa, Doha, Qatar; Hassan, A., Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Al Tarfa, Doha, Qatar; Mnaouer, A.B., Canadian University of Dubai, 308th Street, P.O. Box 117781, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Gaabab, B., National Engineering School of Gabès, Avenue Omar Ibn El Khattab, Zrig Eddakhlania, 6072, Tunisia; Rasid, M.F.A., Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, 43300, Malaysia; Khriji, L., Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khoudh, Muscat, 123, Oman
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks;Vol. 2015
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.
dc.rights.holderCopyright : 2015 Farid Touati et al.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectBluetoothen_US
dc.subjectElectric power utilizationen_US
dc.subjectElectrocardiographyen_US
dc.subjectEnergy efficiencyen_US
dc.subjectHealth careen_US
dc.subjectMedical applicationsen_US
dc.subjectNetworks (circuits)en_US
dc.subjectQuality of serviceen_US
dc.subjectStandardsen_US
dc.subjectBattery operated devicesen_US
dc.subjectBluetooth low energies (BLE)en_US
dc.subjectExperimental performance evaluationsen_US
dc.subjectReal-time transmissionsen_US
dc.subjectResourceconstrained devicesen_US
dc.subjectUbiquitous health monitoringen_US
dc.subjectWireless body area networken_US
dc.subjectMonitoringen_US
dc.titleAn experimental performance evaluation and compatibility study of the bluetooth low energy based platform for ECG monitoring in WBANsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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