Live ECG Streaming at the Berlin Marathon 2011

Alexander Schacht, Martin von Löwis, and Andreas Polze

Keywords

cardiology, home care, real time telehealth

Abstract

Transmitting continuous data streams from mobile users is a challenge, as network availability varies depending on position and contention among mobile users. We study medical tele-monitoring applications where the advancement of quality in medical care makes efforts into improving the infrastructure worth-while. As a field study, we have tested transmission of electrocardiogram (ECG) data at the Berlin Marathon 2011. Earlier studies have already demonstrated the feasibility of such a setup; we provide detailed measurements and an analysis of connectivity issues that we discovered in our study.

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