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Giorgio Biagetti¹, Paolo Crippa¹, Laura Falaschetti¹

¹DII-Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, I-60131 Ancona, Italy.

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Summary

Lossless compression of electromyography (EMG) data significantly reduces bandwidth needs for wireless transmission. This approach preserves signal integrity, enabling longer battery life and more simultaneous EMG channels.

Keywords:

Bluetooth Low Energy EMG FLAC entropy coding lossless compression power optimization wireless sensors

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Wireless Communication

Background:

Electromyography (EMG) sensors generate high data rates, potentially overwhelming low-energy wireless links like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
Existing lossy compression methods for EMG data introduce artifacts, limiting their utility for certain research applications and future data analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effectiveness of lossless data compression for EMG signals transmitted wirelessly.
To evaluate the performance of various lossless compression algorithms implemented on a real EMG BLE wireless sensor node.

Main Methods:

Implementation and testing of several lossless compression algorithms on EMG data.
Performance evaluation focusing on bandwidth reduction and power consumption on a wireless sensor node.

Main Results:

Lossless compression significantly reduces the required bandwidth for EMG data, often by more than half and down to 1/4 in average cases.
Low-complexity compressors ensure substantial power savings, enhancing the efficiency of wireless EMG sensor nodes.

Conclusions:

Lossless compression is a viable and effective strategy for managing high-volume EMG data in wireless sensor networks.
This technique supports longer battery life and increased channel capacity without introducing signal artifacts, crucial for research and advanced applications.