The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the group that oversees development of the widespread Bluetooth standard, has today unveiled the details about its new mesh networking standard.

Theoretically, connected device makers could also take advantage of the new mesh networking technology if they designed their products to accommodate Bluetooth upgrades, he said. Mesh networking ...

The brief (43-page) document provides an overview of the technology. The diagrams in section 2 are excellent and indeed, the entire publication can serve instructors well for courses on data ...

Bluetooth is about to get some significant new mesh networking capabilities — and the best bit is, you may not need new hardware to benefit from them. Mesh networking will make it simpler to ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group today announced that its Bluetooth technology has been updated with support for mesh networking, designed to create large-scale device networks by connecting ...

A wireless local area network platform is becoming a de facto standard in businesses, and its popularity could come at the expense of Bluetooth. IEEE 802.11b, as it is designated by the Institute ...

Ubertooth One is a cheap, open-source Bluetooth network sniffer. Unlike Wi-Fi, which has had a wide range of free network monitoring tools for years, Bluetooth has remained pretty closed.

Bluetooth is one step closer to connecting smart devices on a large scale. The wireless standard's Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced support for mesh networking. With the new technology ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has updated the specification for the wireless communications technology, with the introduction of mesh networking allowing Bluetooth LE devices to more easily ...

Additionally, SIG is working on mesh networking, which will enable Bluetooth devices to connect together while covering an entire building or home. The Bluetooth Smart Mesh Working Group is ...

Bluetooth-enabled devices are ubiquitous, but how those devices are used is constrained by the relatively short range provided by Bluetooth technology. Seattle-based startup Hubble Network wants ...

He pointed out that Bluetooth is a personal area network (PAN), which is best for a very short range of about 10m and low data rate applications such as phone-to-headset and phone-to-personal ...