Performance Assessment of BLE Nano BAN Micro-Infrastructures
Luca Vollero, Marco Sabatini · 2017
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also known as Bluetooth Smart, is part of the Bluetooth 4.0 Core specifications, introduced in June 2010 by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). BLE is designed as a radio standard that minimizes power consumption and it is particularly suited for low cost, low bandwidth, low power, and low complexity applications. These aspects of the standard represent the reasons of its success in the field of biometric monitoring sensors. The aim of this paper is to present a performance evaluation of a Body Area Network System based on Bluetooth Smart. The evaluation is performed on a real test-bed, composed of offthe-shelf BLE devices. The BLE devices are equipped with software tools developed specifically for this work.