Abstract
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is one of the most widely used wireless
technologies in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, owing to its low
power consumption, low implementation cost, and short-range
communication capability. Yet most conventional BLE deployments rely
on fixed communication parameters, wasting energy when operating
conditions change. This paper reviews adaptive, machine-learning- assisted, and hardware-level approaches to energy-efficient BLE
communi-cation, and proposes a Smart Adaptive BLE Module for IoT
Applications that tunes transmission power, advertising interval, connection interval, and PHY mode dynamically in response to link
quality, battery state, and application requirements. A mathematical energy and link-budget model is developed to relate transmission time, supply voltage, current consumption, packet-delivery ratio, and
retransmission behavior to overall energy efficiency. Numerical examples show that reducing transmit power below the point needed for
reliable delivery can increase, rather than decrease, energy per successfully delivered byte due to retransmissions. The reviewed
literature is compared across communication method, key control variables, validation approach, and remaining limitations. Based on this
review, an EFR32BG22-based hardware implementation is proposed as a
suitable platform for a compact, energy-efficient adaptive BLE module, with a defined measurement plan for future experimental validation