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by NoiseBert69 263 days ago
Problem is that ESP32s are super power hungry once you start using BLE or Wifi.

For BLE you can use STM32s and Nordics. But Wifi-on-Chip is ESP32-only.

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BLE and WiFi are power hungry on any platform. LoRaWAN or zigbee are better for low power, low bw comms. Kinda sacrifice simplicity & ubiquity of support in that you need a gateway/router of some sort, but they are solid solutions with long range and high penetration.