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The sensor is powered by a small rechargeable battery and is designed for extremely low power use. However, the autonomy of the sensor, regarding its power consumption, depends significantly on the measurement quality selection, which directly influences the amount of data transferred. Therefore, we perform an in-depth analysis of the power consumption sources, particularly those connected with the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication protocol, in order to model and then tune the autonomy of the wireless low-power body sensor for long-term ECG monitoring. Based on the findings, we propose two analytical models for power consumption: one for power consumption estimation in idle mode and the other one for power estimation in active mode. The proposed models are validated with the measured power consumption of the ECG sensor at different ECG sensor settings, such as sampling rate and transmit power. The proposed models show a good fit to the measured power consumption at different ECG sensor sampling rates. This allows for power consumption analysis and sensor autonomy predictions for different sensor settings. Moreover, the results show that the transmit power has a negligible effect on the sensor autonomy in the case of streaming data with high sampling rates. 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