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Comment by dinero_rojo | Hacker News Reader

At least read the abstract before commenting, man...

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

> 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.