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No. 3. Vol. 31. 2025

DOI: 10.17587/it.31.161-168

I. A. Khromov, L. S. Voskov, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, 101 000, Russian Federation

Experimental Investigation of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area Networks

Received on July 11, 2024
Accepted on November 08, 2024

This paper presents an energy-efficient architecture for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and a novel data transmission method that leverages the human body as a transmission medium. An experimental investigation is conducted to validate the energy efficiency of the proposed data transmission approach, which replaces traditional radio frequency (RF) methods. The results demonstrate a significant reduction in power consumption compared to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), with a 7-fold decrease, and ZigBee, with a 14-fold decrease.
Keywords: Bluetooth LE, BodyCom, capacitive coupling, human body communication, IBC, intrabody communication, WBAN, wireless body area network, ZigBee

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