Can it be? Connectionless IoT with Bluetooth 5.0
Bluetooth’s next release, Bluetooth 5, and will quadruple range, double speed, and increase data broadcasting capacity by 800% — says the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). They also say that 5.0 will deliver “connectionless” IoT, boosting beacon and location-based capabilities in home, enterprise, and industrial situations. So we can look forward to IoT connections that make full-home and building and outdoor use cases a reality.
Bluetooth’s next release, Bluetooth 5, and will quadruple range, double speed, and increase data broadcasting capacity by 800% — says the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). They also say that 5.0 will deliver “connectionless” IoT, boosting beacon and location-based capabilities in home, enterprise, and industrial situations. So we can look forward to IoT connections that make full-home and building and outdoor use cases a reality.
In the Bluetooth SIG boastware we read the befuddling statement that “increasing broadcast capacity will propel the next generation of connectionless services such as beacons and location-relevant information and navigation.”
Hang on, I think I got it — “connectionless” is supposed to mean that with Bluetooth 5 you do not have to do the handshaking procedure (pairing) to link to a data source before you are authorized to get the data you want. Just the thing you want for small-area navigation like on airports, warehouse inventory tracking, emergency response, and smart city infrastructure to help the visually impaired. But why call Bluetooth 5.0 “connectionless” is a mystery to me as IMHO no data exchange can exist without a connection of some kind.
In the Bluetooth SIG boastware we read the befuddling statement that “increasing broadcast capacity will propel the next generation of connectionless services such as beacons and location-relevant information and navigation.”
Hang on, I think I got it — “connectionless” is supposed to mean that with Bluetooth 5 you do not have to do the handshaking procedure (pairing) to link to a data source before you are authorized to get the data you want. Just the thing you want for small-area navigation like on airports, warehouse inventory tracking, emergency response, and smart city infrastructure to help the visually impaired. But why call Bluetooth 5.0 “connectionless” is a mystery to me as IMHO no data exchange can exist without a connection of some kind.
