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dietr1chtoday at 5:29 PM1 replyview on HN

What forces devices to constantly stream data? You can batch updates and probably save power thanks to it.


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kccqzytoday at 6:22 PM

Because these BLE devices are so cheap that they don’t have storage. And BLE transmission is already very power efficient: the power consumption of BLE is probably the same order of magnitude as powering flash storage.