A comparative analysis of BLE and 6LoWPAN for U-HealthCare applications

Miniaturized Printed Inverted-F Antenna for Internet of Things: A Design on PCB with a Meandering Line and Shorting Strip

“…In the network layer, wireless parts including an antenna and RF front-end circuits are the main challenges for IoT development [7,8]. There are different wireless solutions, in which Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) [9] and Zigbee [10] are highly potential suitable platforms for IoT applications. These wireless technologies are operated under 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band.…”

An Experimental Performance Evaluation and Compatibility Study of the Bluetooth Low Energy Based Platform for ECG Monitoring in WBANs

“…In particular, the 6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4 based solution seems interesting because it allows interoperability to Internet of Things (IoT) through IPv6. Among the technologies compliant with 6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4, the CC2420 transceiver chip with microcontroller MSP430 provides less peak power consumption than the CC2530 SoC, while offering similar 15.4 has been widely tested in various projects, BLE announced more compelling features in some aspects. Also, the 6LoWPAN working group is considering a draft regarding the specification for the transmission of IPv6 packets over BLE [34].…”

“…15.4 has been adopted by numerous researchers and developers in a variety of their hardware devices, only few studies addressed BLE technology, especially its integration in healthcare applications. As mentioned earlier, BLE is an emerging low-power wireless technology developed for short-range monitoring and control applications and is being included in billions of devices worldwide, currently and in the next few years.…”

“…The main contributions of this paper are as follows: first, we extend the systematic comparison of the emerging technologies, introduced initially in [15] and completed in this paper to provide more specifications, especially for the technologies compatible with ZigBee/6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4 standard (e.g., the CC2530 system-on-Chip (SoC) and CC2420 transceiver integrated with the MSP430 microprocessor). The emerging technologies were compared in this paper in order to provide comparison between the technical specifications and the experimental results obtained through implementations in real-world scenarios according to the maximum peak energy, application throughput, and latency.…”

“…It is often assumed that BLE is less consuming than ZigBee/6LoWPAN over IEEE 802.15.4 and offers more compelling features; however, few studies have been yet published supporting these assumptions. Most of the comparative studies in the literature on BLE consider the specifications provided by the manufacturer [15,16], while the proposed performance evaluations mostly consider WSNs, do not deal with medical data [17,18], focus on the energy consumption aspect only [19], or study the feasibility of BLE in healthcare applications [20,21]. It seems interesting to evaluate the BLE performance experimentally to demonstrate its capacity to deal with the specificity of medical data.…”