{"id":145849,"date":"2015-11-12T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=145849"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T07:30:23","slug":"bluetooth-to-get-longer-range-and-higher-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/145849-bluetooth-to-get-longer-range-and-higher-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth to get longer range and higher speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has unveiled its 2016 technology roadmap, which includes enhancements to the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Bluetooth enhancements are focused on increasing its Internet of Things functionality, with updates which include a longer range, higher speeds, and mesh networking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe host of Bluetooth advancements coming in 2016 will further energize fast-growing industries such as smart home, industrial automation, location-based services, and smart infrastructure,\u201d said the Bluetooth SIG.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the range of Bluetooth 4.0+ is set to increase up to four times, which \u201cwill transform smart home and infrastructure applications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a 100% increase in speed &#8211; without increasing energy consumption \u2013 which will enable faster data transfers.<\/p>\n<p>It added that mesh networking will enable Bluetooth devices to connect together in networks that can cover an entire building or home, opening up home and industrial automation applications.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Bluetooth<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/127350-this-is-why-you-should-get-a-bluetooth-key-finder.html\">This is why you should get a Bluetooth key finder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth Technology will gain a longer range, faster speeds, and mesh networking in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,1027,33909,33911],"class_list":["post-145849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-bluetooth","tag-bluetooth-special-interest-group","tag-sig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145873,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145849\/revisions\/145873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}