Monitoring Heart Disease and Diabetes with Mobile Internet Communications

Table 1

Selected characteristics of some available 2.4 GHz transceivers.

Type	Bit rate; (kbps)	MAC protocol	Node; limit	Hops
ZigBee [12]	250	IEEE 802.15.4	2^64	Multihop
ShockBurst [13]	1000 or 2000	Commercial	6	Single hop
ANT [14]	1000	Commercial	2^32	Multihop