Intermittently-powered bluetooth that works

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Abstract

We present an architecture for intermittently-powered wireless communication systems that does not require any changes to the official protocol specification. Our core idea is to save the intermediate state of the wireless protocol to non-volatile memory within each connection interval. The protocol state is then deterministically restored at a predefined (harvested energy-dependent) time, which follows the connection interval. As a case study for our architecture, we introduce FreeBie: a battery-free intermittently-powered Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mote. To the best of our knowledge FreeBie is the first battery-free active wireless system that sustains bi-directional communication on intermittent harvested energy. The strength of our architecture is articulated by FreeBie consuming at least 9.5 times less power during device inactivity periods than a state-of-the-art BLE device.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobiSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages287-301
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-9185-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, MobiSys 2022 - Portland, United States
Duration: 27 Jun 20221 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameMobiSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Conference

Conference20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, MobiSys 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPortland
Period27/06/221/07/22

Keywords

  • battery-free
  • bluetooth
  • embedded systems
  • energy harvesting
  • intermittent computing
  • mobile networks

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