Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Bluetooth Low Energy: Classic Bluetooth Similar Communication Range
Bluetooth Low Energy: Classic Bluetooth Similar Communication Range
Compared to Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Smart is intended to provide considerably reduced power
consumption and cost while maintaining a similar communication range.
Technical
Specification
Distance/Range
(theoretical max.)
Application
throughput
Active slaves
Security
Robustness
13 Mbit/s
1 Mbit/s
0.72.1 Mbit/s
0.27 Mbit/s
56/128-bit and application layer user 128-bit AES with Counter Mode CBCdefined
Latency (from a
non-connected
Typically 100 ms
6 ms
100 ms
state)
data (det.battery
life)
Voice capable
Yes
No
Network topology
Scatternet
Scatternet
1 as the reference
<30 mA
<15 mA
Service discovery
Yes
Yes
Profile concept
Yes
Yes
Power
consumption
Peak current
consumption