Yet, despite its convenience, Bluetooth has a well‑known limitation: range. The connection between a device and its source—whether it's a phone streaming music or a sensor reporting data—can stretch ...

Last year we took a look at Postifier, a device that sits in a mailbox patiently awaiting any deliveries and alerting users on their smartphone when something arrives. Because Postifier relied on ...

One of the new specifications to appear on the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X is Bluetooth 5, an enhancement of the Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy protocol. Its primary benefit enables BLE devices (such as ...

Bluetooth-enabled tags and trackers aren't exactly new but they all have one limitation in common. Aside from the range limit of Bluetooth itself, of course. Because of the electronics required to ...

The increasing ubiquity of the Internet of Things has led to a greater integration of Bluetooth mesh networks with wireless sensor technologies. Bluetooth mesh leverages the fundamental Bluetooth Low ...