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. 2021 Jul 8;120(3):2259–2289. doi: 10.1007/s11277-021-08730-7

Table 3.

Comparison of 5G with existing wireless technologies

Technology Speed Power Distance Latency
Sigfox 450 kbps 0.2 w 20 miles 1–30 sec
LoRA 50 kbps 0.1 w 10 miles 1–10 sec
Ingenu <1mbps 0.1w 50+miles 25+ sec
LTE-M 1 mbps 0.5 w 6+miles 100 ms
NB-IoT 250 kbps 0.5 w 6+miles 5 sec
EC-GSM-IoT 240 kbps 0.5 w 6+miles 2 sec
Classic bluetooth 1–3 mbps 1 w 100 m 100 ms
BLE 1–2 mbps 0.01–0.5 w <100m 6 ms
Zigbee 250 kbps 0.1 w 10–100 m >140ms
WLAN 100 mbps 100 w 50 m 20–40 ms
5G 10 gbps 1.4–2 kw 10 miles >1 ms