Research Article
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 |
264 | Multihop | ShockBurst [13] | 1000 or 2000 | Commercial | 6 | Single hop | ANT [14] | 1000 | Commercial |
232 | Multihop |
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