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However, the adoption of WiFi for PHS has some drawbacks, related to power consumption, large-scale deployment costs and interference with other networks in nearby areas. Bluetooth technology and, in particular, its low-energy version Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), represents a valid candidate solution to the drawbacks of WiFi, thanks to its Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) mechanism. This work proposes the application of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DNN) to improve the analysis and classification of the BLE signal deformations for PHS using commercial standard BLE devices. The proposed approach was applied to reliably detect the presence of human occupants in a large and articulated room with only a few transmitters and receivers and in conditions where the occupants do not directly occlude the Line of Sight between transmitters and receivers. 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