Nowadays smart healthcare constitutes an active field of research that offers the potential of great improvement in the delivery and monitoring of healthcare. The expansion of this sector is supported by the recent development of sensors and embedded systems, wearable and easily integrated into everyday life. New higher performances wireless technologies have empowered the development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) as the link between different devices placed on the human body offering constant monitoring of relevant parameters without posing constraints on normal daily life activities. This master thesis project aims to analyse and characterize performances and peculiarity of different wireless protocols to manage the event drive data transfer from an acquisition board to a host station, in which these will be processed.