Bluetooth 5. 1 specification, lighting manufacturers and new business opportunities!

Recently, the bluetooth technology union ( 蓝牙特别兴趣小组、团体) Released the bluetooth 5. 1 version of the core specification, its most main is to join the function of direction finding and cm-level positioning service, to meet the market demand for more precise positioning service capability, which means that the bluetooth lamp can be used for pathfinding, positioning tracking and close service. For do the people engaged in the development of bluetooth, it is definitely a big news. Direction finding feature allows devices to determine the direction of the bluetooth signal, thus the direction of the development to understand the equipment bluetooth solutions, adjacent to realize cm-level bluetooth positioning. In other words, the use of bluetooth 5. 1 version, not only can detect the distance to a particular object, can also detect it's direction. New technology has many USES, used in asset tracking, personnel tracking precision and indoor positioning, tracking items may be lost or has been lost, for example, lead visitors to certain parts of the museum to help millions of passengers at the busy airport and shoppers in the navigation, positioning and tracking position tray, warehouse forklift, workers or patients with ultrasound machines and hospital and so on. Bluetooth technology alliance, said the technology can provide the cm-level accuracy for location-based services, this will make it a good solution for indoor navigation. Bluetooth low energy technology available since 2010, the developer has been able to use bluetooth for the consumer, retail and manufacturing environment, health care, public places and so on various applications to create powerful, low-cost location services solutions. 'New direction finding function can help the bluetooth to better meet the needs of localization industry is changing, more flexible and extensible implementation and deployment for the future, to further accelerate the bluetooth positioning service application in current market, at the same time for the new applications and use cases to release more business opportunities. ', a senior analyst at ABI Research, Andrew Zignani said. 'Bluetooth has become a technology of choice for location-based services, allows for accurate positioning are needed to support the business of all kinds of organizations to build a strong, reliable solutions,' industry sources said. This technology will bring higher value added for lighting system. If home or other indoor public places in every bulb support bluetooth, users can communicate with bluetooth devices in the building. According to observation, location service is one of the fastest growing solution areas bluetooth technology, is expected to reach more than 400 million annually by 2022. It is understood that other bluetooth positioning tracking technology launch will be comparable to those or philips YellowDot plan there is competition, which lets a certified contains YellowDot drives the LED lamps and lanterns and philips indoor positioning technology interoperability.