Bluetooth Low Energy ( Bluetooth LE, BLE, formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart ) is a technology designed and marketed by the (SIG) aimed at novel applications in the healthcare,, beacons, security, and home entertainment industries. Compared to, Bluetooth Low Energy is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and cost while maintaining a.

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The nRF51822 is a powerful, highly flexible multi-protocol SoC ideally suited for Bluetooth low energy and 2.4GHz ultra low-power wireless applications. Android powers your watch, your TV and even your car. Power for the long haul with a battery saver feature that extends your device by up to 90 minutes. And now it's. Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are rapidly making their way to all kinds of new products. Because they’re integrated into smartphones, they allow a user.

Mobile operating systems including,, and, as well as,, and, natively support Bluetooth Low Energy. The Bluetooth SIG predicts that by 2018 more than 90 percent of Bluetooth-enabled smartphones will support Bluetooth Low Energy. The previously used Bluetooth Smart logo In 2011, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the Bluetooth Smart logo so as to clarify compatibility between the new low energy devices and other Bluetooth devices. • Bluetooth Smart Ready indicates a dual-mode device compatible with both Classic and low energy. • Bluetooth Smart indicates a low energy-only device which requires either a Smart Ready or another Smart device in order to function. With the May 2016 Bluetooth SIG branding information, the Bluetooth SIG began phasing out the Bluetooth Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready logos and word marks and has reverted to using the Bluetooth logo and word mark.

The logo uses a new blue color. Target market [ ] The Bluetooth SIG identifies a number of markets for low energy technology, particularly in the smart home, health, sport and fitness sectors. Cited advantages include: • low power requirements, operating for 'months or years' on a • small size and low cost • compatibility with a large of mobile phones, tablets and computers History [ ]. The now-defunct Wibree logo In 2001, researchers at determined various scenarios contemporary wireless technologies did not address.

The company began developing a wireless technology adapted from the Bluetooth standard which would provide lower power usage and cost while minimizing its differences from Bluetooth technology. The results were published in 2004 using the name Bluetooth Low End Extension. After further development with partners in particular Logitech and within project MIMOSA, actively promoted and supported also by since its early stage, technology was released to the public in October 2006 with the brand name Wibree. After negotiations with Bluetooth SIG members, an agreement was reached in June 2007 to include Wibree in future Bluetooth specification as a Bluetooth ultra-low-power technology, known as Bluetooth Low Energy technology. Integration of Bluetooth Low Energy with version 4.0 of the Core Specification was completed in early 2010.

The first smartphone to implement the 4.0 specification was the, released in October 2011. A number of other manufacturers released Bluetooth Low Energy Ready devices in 2012.

The Bluetooth SIG officially unveiled Bluetooth 5 on June 16, 2016 during a media event in London. One change on the marketing side is that they dropped the point number, so it now just called Bluetooth 5 (and not Bluetooth 5.0 or 5.0 LE like for Bluetooth 4.0). This decision was made allegedly to “simplifying marketing, and communicating user benefits more effectively”. On the technical side, Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range by using increased transmit power or coded physical layer, double the speed by using optional half of the symbol time compared to Bluetooth 4.x, and provide an eight-fold increase in data broadcasting capacity by increasing the advertising data length [ ] of low energy Bluetooth transmissions compared to Bluetooth 4.x, which could be important for applications where nodes are connected throughout a whole house. The Bluetooth SIG released Mesh Profile and Mesh Model specifications officially on July 18, 2017. Enables using Bluetooth Low Energy for many-to-many device communications for home automation, sensor networks and other applications.