Isn’t that just WiFi with extra steps? BLE gets most of its energy efficiency from aggressively turning the radios off when they’re not in use. Wifi can do the

Isn’t that just WiFi with extra steps? BLE gets most of its energy efficiency from aggressively turning the radios off when they’re not in use. Wifi can do the same thing, and protocols like Thread are pushing in that direction. The big issue with a BLE to interwebs gateway is that you means you need to handle routing etc. Which starts to erode the benefits of using BLE in the first place.