  Telehealth and wearable equipment can deliver personal healthcare and
necessary treatment remotely. One major challenge is transmitting large amount
of biosignals through wireless networks. The limited battery life calls for
low-power data compressors. Compressive Sensing (CS) has proved to be a
low-power compressor. In this study, we apply CS on the compression of
multichannel biosignals. We firstly develop an efficient CS algorithm from the
Block Sparse Bayesian Learning (BSBL) framework. It is based on a combination
of the block sparse model and multiple measurement vector model. Experiments on
real-life Fetal ECGs showed that the proposed algorithm has high fidelity and
efficiency. Implemented in hardware, the proposed algorithm was compared to a
Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) based algorithm, verifying the proposed one
has low power consumption and occupies less computational resources.
