A Real-Time Continuous ECG Transmitting Method through GPRS with Low Power Consumption

In this paper, a novel real-time continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) transmitting method through GPRS network is presented, which is based on a packet-level forward error correction (PFEC) method with simultaneously considering low power consumption. This novel method is used on the user datagram protocol (UDP) for data transmission. Furthermore, a series of communication tests based on a developed experiment platform are carried out to validate this method. Results indicate that the transmitting protocol using the PFEC with a packet size of 450 bytes, 3 seconds of transmission interval per packet would achieve about 0.1% to 0.3% packet loss rate, which is more effective transmission and has lower power consumption, and conclusively match actually the requirement of the clinical mobile monitoring.