Usage of Bluetooth Low Energy for Weather Measurements

Abstract: For every year the importance of lowering energy consumptionof our devices gets more important. Wireless devicesget smaller which leads to the fact that they need smallerbatteries than earlier versions. At the same time the customersstill have high requirements on the battery time. So what followsis that new technologies are needed to meet the customerrequirements by lowering the energy consumption for the devicesto maintain the same battery time as earlier.Today it is very common that these wireless devices makesuse of the wireless Bluetooth protocol in order to communicatewith other devices, for example with a mobile application.Bluetooth is in many cases more energy consuming thannecessary. In this report the wireless Bluetooth Low Energyprotocol will be tested and evaluated to see if the energy consumptionof a battery driven ground station for weather measurementscan be reduced.