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Re:Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf] by jnurmine on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:57PM (#26289316)
I did, man.

Table 1.

  Wi-Le Energy/packet: 84 uJ
  Wi-Le Idle current: 2.5 uA

  BLE Energy/packet: 71 uJ
  BLE Idle current: 1.1 uA
You can see this from Figure 4 as well.

So, like I wrote, Bluetooth consumes less battery.

In addition there are unsolved issues, which are likely to add to the overall consumption.

Edit: formatting

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Re:Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (2019) [pdf] by theta_d on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:02PM (#26289711)
> We believe that an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation will have much lower power consumption.

Line from right above the table so it could possibly go the other direction and use less.

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