Better Bluetooth Coming Next Year

Bluetooth Gets Much Faster With More Range Next Year

Adnan Farooqui | November 12, 2015

The Bluetooth 4.0 standard brought a few major changes for this technology back when the overhaul arrived in 2010, that helped increase Bluetooth’s popularity and enabled solutions that were previously not possible. Bluetooth is now due for another update and the next one, expected in 2016, is going to bring more speed and range to a technology that can certainly use both of those advantages.

Source: http://wistao.blogspot.com/2012/09/comparison-of-bluetooth-different.html

Source: http://wistao.blogspot.com/2012/09/comparison-of-bluetooth-different.html

<more at http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/11/bluetooth-gets-much-faster-with-more-range-next-year/; related links: http://wccftech.com/bluetooth-year-fast-fourth-times-range/ (Bluetooth Next Year Will Be Twice As Fast, Four Times More Range, Mesh Networking. November 16, 2015) and http://www.zdnet.com/article/expect-better-faster-bluetooth-in-2016-thanks-to-iot/ (Expect better, faster Bluetooth in 2016 thanks to IoT. Not only will Bluetooth Smart devices get a 4x range boost, they'll also work as a mesh network for the fast growing IoT market. November 11, 2015)>