Bluetooth 5.1 What S New And Why It Matters
Bluetooth Devices Can Now Pinpoint Your Location Current Bluetooth proximity systems can guess how far away a device—like your smarthome or smartwatch—is by using signal strength. They might know you’re a few meters away, but they don’t know the direction. That’s enhanced with a new direction-finding feature in Bluetooth 5.1, which was just announced by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG,) the industry group that oversees Bluetooth. A positioning system can now determine the direction a Bluetooth signal is coming from....