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You won't be able to achieve the BLE figures with cellular technology. (Even without GPS. ) You just basically say so by explaining how much higher the bandwidth is. The thesis of the author of this article still stands. It's not just GPS.
I can, if I don't turn it on, which is where the 20uA figure comes from, keeping the device in hibernation
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Er, what relevance does BLE power consumption have to LTE-M, NBIOT, etc.?
Mmm. That's the thesis of the article? "This mobile tracker is seemingly designed to resemble a popular Bluetooth tracker and sports a LTE-M radio and GPS receiver. But as mentioned here and here, a leopard can’t change its spots." They try to be as low power as a Bluetooth tracker, but they just can't. It will never be actually low power.
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Mmm. That's the thesis of the article? "This mobile tracker is seemingly designed to resemble a popular Bluetooth tracker and sports a LTE-M radio and GPS receiver. But as mentioned here and here, a leopard can’t change its spots." They try to be as low power as a Bluetooth tracker, but they just can't. It will never be actually low power.
One (or a few) crappily implemented products doesn’t prove a point to me. As I’m bound by NDA on my prototypes, but I’ll do a little digging for public info I can share.
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One (or a few) crappily implemented products doesn’t prove a point to me. As I’m bound by NDA on my prototypes, but I’ll do a little digging for public info I can share.
BLE was included to demonstrate that the convention for "low power" IoT devices is usually expressed in terms of years (of battery life). This is not saying BLE is a LPWAN, but in the minds of customers the expectation, like for LoRa, Sigfox, or active RFID, low power means years of battery life.
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BLE was included to demonstrate that the convention for "low power" IoT devices is usually expressed in terms of years (of battery life). This is not saying BLE is a LPWAN, but in the minds of customers the expectation, like for LoRa, Sigfox, or active RFID, low power means years of battery life.
Show me a BLE device that has years (plural) of battery life.
On two AA batteries, 10 years. It's plural.
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Show me a BLE device that has years (plural) of battery life.
https://www.blueupbeacons.com/index.php?page=maxi On two AA batteries, 10 years. It's plural.