The advances enable Bluetooth to cover an entire home and yard, using a smartphone or tablet as a controller, eliminating the need for home gateways used with Zigbee, said Andrew Zignani, an analyst at ABI Research.Via: EE Times
Using the mesh, Bluetooth could even reach into smart building and smart city applications. However, “it will need to be increasingly incorporated in IoT gateway devices or smart hubs that include multiple technologies, such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Thread, and Z-Wave” to fully enable IoT, he added.
Bluetooth 5.0 promises 2Mbps over 100 meters
Posted on Monday, June 20 2016 @ 16:02 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck