Medical Out Of The Box Solution for HR and HRV Measurement

The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Heart Rate Service (HRS) is a standardized method, defined by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), for transmitting heart rate data using BLE technology. This service allows heart rate monitoring devices, such as the  Movesense Medical sensor  (class IIa medical device, MDR), to communicate with applications or other devices like smartphones, tablets, or medical systems, ensuring interoperability between different manufacturers and transmission of medical HR and HRV measurement data.

BLE Heart Rate Service and Movesense Medical sensor

The BLE Heart Rate Service defines how heart rate information is transmitted over a BLE connection to the receiving device, software or an application.

The “Heart Rate Measurement” characteristic provided by Movesense Medical sensor over the BLE Heart Rate Service are:

• Heart Rate (HR): average heart rate in beats per minute
• RR-Intervals: time interval between two consecutive heartbeats, commonly used for heart rate variability (HRV) /heart rhythm analysis

Additionally, Movesense Medical sensor offers a single-channel ECG measurement capability with various sampling rates.

Benefits

1. Interoperability

The Heart Rate Service is standardized across BLE-compliant devices. This ensures that the Movesense Medical sensor can communicate with any BLE-compliant devices and platforms implementing the Heart Rate Service, such as smartphones, computers, or healthcare devices and / or systems.

2. Real-time Data Transmission

BLE enables real-time data transmission, making it possible to monitor heart rate continuously during exercise, rest, or other activities, with minimal delay.

3. Out of the box solution

Movesense Medical is out of the box solution for medically certified HR and HRV measurement for med tech companies, healthcare providers, hospitals and medical practitioners, with minimum setup needs. Movesense Medical is a class II a medical device (MDR 2017/745).

4. Low Energy Consumption:

BLE’s low power consumption allows Movesense Medical sensor to operate for extended duration in heart rate monitoring use.

Conclusions

The BLE Heart Rate Service enables seamless, low-energy communication between the Movesense Medical sensor and other medical devices and platforms, providing flexibility in how  medical HR and HRV measurement data is captured, transmitted, and analyzed.  Its standardization ensures that Movesense Medical sensor can provide HR and HRV measurements to host devices from different medical device manufacturers that require a medically certified measurement capability, expanding the ecosystem of HR and HRV monitoring technologies.