Organisation Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which is in charge of the development of standards in the field of wireless communication interface Bluetooth, spoke about the changes that will affect the technology next year. New features, mainly meet the needs have rapidly growing segment of the Internet of Things.
In particular, twice increase bandwidth at a constant level of energy and will be increased to four times the range of Bluetooth connection , while the current version of the standard implies the possibility of pairing on the limit distance of 100 meters.
An interesting innovation also appears support mesh networks. Bluetooth-enabled devices will be able to form a decentralized network and exchange data on a chain. This should further increase the area of the reach of individual devices.