Bluetooth 5 is on the way four times the speed twice the range and location awareness
Bluetooth 5 is on the way four times the speed twice the range and location awareness Due to be announced next week on June 16, Bluetooth 5 has a great deal to offer. Ahead of the announcement, Bluetooth Special Interest Group executive director Mark Powell has revealed a little about what we can expect. The headline-grabbing specifications for the latest version of the wireless standard are a doubling of the current range, and a quadrupling of the current speed. Slightly less exciting is the change in naming convention which is a move to simplify the communication of major changes, but another key feature of Bluetooth 5 is support for location-aware services. This is something that other companies are already implementing in different ways, and in the last few days Google launched Nearby which makes use of beacons to promote apps and services based on location. As Bluetooth 5 becomes widely adopted, we�re likely to see far more things like this. This is really ...