What's next for Bluetooth?

Chuck Sabin has spent a healthy chunk of his professional career working for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), having joined it back in December 2010 as director, product management and planning and then being promoted on two occasions. He now serves as its senior director for market development. When I sought a briefing on recent advances in the technology and upcoming changes, his eight – soon to be nine – years championing Bluetooth and helping to drive its development make him the perfect person to interview.

As we speak via the capricious modern-day miracle that is the transatlantic conference call, he begins by saying that the Bluetooth SIG and its members are pushing hard on two areas at the moment: Bluetooth Mesh and location services. Starting with the first, Bluetooth Mesh – according to the SIG’s website – “enables many-to-many device communications and is optimised for creating large-scale device networks”.