Abstract: A lossless data compression method that comprises the receiving of a series of data segments of a known length and a known characteristic and the pre-processing of the series of data segments to generate a series of differential data, which comprises a first value, one or more differential values and a last differential value. The method further comprises the dividing of the series of differential data into at least two blocks of differential data and the encoding of at least one block of differential data using Rice encoding, thereby providing at least one block of encoded differential data. In addition, the method comprises the generating of a data packet that comprises said at least one blocks of encoded differential data and any blocks of differential data not having been encoded.