Comparison of Power Consumption of WiFi Inbuilt Internet of Things Device with Bluetooth Low Energy
The Internet of things (IoT) is currently a highly
researched topic, especially within the context of the smart home.
These are small sensors that are capable of gathering data and
transmitting it to a server. The majority of smart home products use
protocols such as ZigBee or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). As these
small sensors are increasing in number, the need to implement these
with much more capable and ubiquitous transmission technology is
necessary. The high power consumption is the reason that holds
these small sensors back from using other protocols such as the
most ubiquitous form of communication, WiFi. Comparing the power
consumption of existing transmission technologies to one with WiFi
inbuilt, would provide a better understanding for choosing between
these technologies. We have developed a small IoT device with WiFi
capability and proven that it is much more efficient than the first
protocol, 433 MHz. We extend our work in this paper and compare
WiFi power consumption with the other most widely used protocol
BLE. The experimental results in this paper would conclude whether
the developed prototype is capable in terms of power consumption to
replace the existing protocol BLE with WiFi.
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(HIC), 2014 IEEE, pages 251–254, Oct 2014.
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consumption for mobile devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing, 13(12):2806–2819, Dec 2014.
[1] Datasheet. https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/DS18S20.pdf.
Accessed on: 2016.01.15.
[2] ESP8266. http://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp8266ex/overview.
Accessed on: 2016.03.10.
[3] Gartner Says 6.4 Billion Connected ”Things” Will
Be in Use in 2016, Up 30 Percent From 2015.
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3165317. Accessed on
2016.04.10.
[4] Mixed Signal Microcontroller. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/msp430g
2553. Accessed on: 2016.04.10.
[5] Portapow. http://www.portablepowersupplies.co.uk/portapow-premiumusb-
dc-power-monitor/ Accessed on: 2016.05.10.
[6] Adafruit. Adafruit Bluefruit LE UART Friend - Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE). https://www.adafruit.com/product/2479. Accessed on :
2016.06.20.
[7] K. H. Chang. Bluetooth: a viable solution for IoT? (industry
perspectives). IEEE Wireless Communications, 21(6):6–7, December
2014.
[8] J. DeCuir. Introducing bluetooth smart: Part 1: A look at both
classic and new technologies. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine,
3(1):12–18, Jan 2014.
[9] Dave Evans. The Internet of Things: How the Next
Evolution of the Internet is Changing Everything.
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/enus/about/ac79/docs/innov/IoTIBSG0411
FINAL. Accessed on: 2016.07.10.
[10] C. Gray, R. Ayre, K. Hinton, and R. S. Tucker. Power consumption
of IoT access network technologies. In 2015 IEEE International
Conference on Communication Workshop (ICCW), pages 2818–2823,
June 2015.
[11] Y. Jie, J. Y. Pei, L. Jun, G. Yun, and X. Wei. Smart home system
based on iot technologies. In Computational and Information Sciences
(ICCIS), 2013 Fifth International Conference on, pages 1789–1791,
June 2013.
[12] M. J. Kaur and P. Maheshwari. Building smart cities applications using
IoT and cloud-based architectures. In 2016 International Conference
on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), pages 1–5,
March 2016.
[13] K. Nair, J. Kulkarni, M. Warde, Z. Dave, V. Rawalgaonkar, G. Gore,
and J. Joshi. Optimizing power consumption in IoT based wireless
sensor networks using Bluetooth Low Energy. In Green Computing
and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), 2015 International Conference on,
pages 589–593, Oct 2015.
[14] S. Raza, P. Misra, Z. He, and T. Voigt. Bluetooth smart: An enabling
technology for the Internet of Things. In Wireless and Mobile
Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2015 IEEE
11th International Conference on, pages 155–162, Oct 2015.
[15] Gil Reiter. Wireless connectivity for the Internet of Things.
http://www.ti.com/lit/wp/swry010/swry010.pdf. Accessed on :
2016.07.10.
[16] Lattice Semiconductor. Energy Efficiency: The
Common Denominator in the Internet of Things.
http://www.latticesemi.com/ /media/LatticeSemi/Documents/White
Papers/HM/LatticeSemiconductorIoT WhitePaper.pdf. Accessed on:
2016.07.12.
[17] D. Thomas, R. McPherson, G.Paul, and J.Irvine. Optimizing power
consumption of Wi-Fi inbuild IoT device. In IEEE Consumer
Electronics Magazine, 2016, ’To Appear’.
[18] D. Thomas, R. McPherson, and J.Irvine. Power analysis of local
transmission technologies. In 12th IEEE Conference on PhD Research
in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), 2016.
[19] T. Zhang, J. Lu, F. Hu, and Q. Hao. Bluetooth low energy for wearable
sensor-based healthcare systems. In Healthcare Innovation Conference
(HIC), 2014 IEEE, pages 251–254, Oct 2014.
[20] Y. Zhang and Q. Li. Exploiting zigbee in reducing wifi power
consumption for mobile devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing, 13(12):2806–2819, Dec 2014.
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researched topic, especially within the context of the smart home.
These are small sensors that are capable of gathering data and
transmitting it to a server. The majority of smart home products use
protocols such as ZigBee or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). As these
small sensors are increasing in number, the need to implement these
with much more capable and ubiquitous transmission technology is
necessary. The high power consumption is the reason that holds
these small sensors back from using other protocols such as the
most ubiquitous form of communication, WiFi. Comparing the power
consumption of existing transmission technologies to one with WiFi
inbuilt, would provide a better understanding for choosing between
these technologies. We have developed a small IoT device with WiFi
capability and proven that it is much more efficient than the first
protocol, 433 MHz. We extend our work in this paper and compare
WiFi power consumption with the other most widely used protocol
BLE. The experimental results in this paper would conclude whether
the developed prototype is capable in terms of power consumption to
replace the existing protocol BLE with WiFi.", keywords = "Bluetooth, internet of things, power consumption,
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