ENERGY MODELING AND POWER CONSUMPTION IN BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY STANDARDS: AN EXPERIMENT & COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS WITH TRADITIONAL BLUETOOTH FOR IOT APPLICATION
Rahul Shrimali, Hemal Shah, Jaydeep Gajera · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2018
The Internet of things is making its way into every walk of our lives. IoT is omnipresent. The developments have paced in the past few years. The rapid increase in the usage of IoT in all domains does have its own share of risks. The large consumption of power that is possible in IoT's smart devices as they are constantly accessed by other devices is a major concern. The increased consumption of power is one of the neglected aspects of the smart devices of the IoT applications. It actually says that the unit of electrical energy that is consumed is not put to use effectively. The ultra-power communication mechanism is one of the important aspects when it comes to the deployment of IoT products in the market. For these reasons, the Bluetooth low energy is found to be very promising in nature. The energy that is in took by the Bluetooth Low energy is measured by the usage of a power monitor and the other derived versions of the energy behavior that is fundamental in nature observed from that of the measured outcomes. In our work, the overhead of IPv6 based communication over BLE is explored. This can be put to use for the future IoT scenarios and the results can be contrasted by doing similar kind of experiments. Here, the results show of how the BLE is very energy efficient in terms of the number of bytes transferred per Joule spent. We also developed and tested our modeling on the Android interface to get the results by the receival of the signals that are taken from the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). These values are measured in dBm which is later converted into Joules for the calculation of energy.