Data transmission efficiency in bluetooth low energy versions

Bulić, Patricio (author), Kojek, Gašper (author), Biasizzo, Anton (author)

One important aspect when choosing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solution is to analyze its energy consumption for various connection parameters and desired throughput to build an optimal low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) application and to extend the battery life. In this paper, energy consumption and data throughput for various BLE versions are studied. We have tested the effect of connection interval on the throughput and compared power efficiency relating to throughput for various BLE versions and different transactions. The presented results reveal that shorter connection intervals increase throughput for read/write transactions, but that is not the case for the notify and read/write without response transactions. Furthermore, for each BLE version, the energy consumption is mainly dependable on the data volume. The obtained results provide a design guideline for implementing an optimal BLE IoT application.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), power estimation, performance evaluation, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 19, iss. 17, art. 3746
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-132805
• UDC: 004
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19173746
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1538296003
• Publication date in RUL: 03.11.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.09.2019

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), analiza porabe, ocena performans, internet stvari (IoT), brezžična senzorska omrežja (WSN)