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Bluetooth Smart in Industrial

J Lindh
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Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2540, CC2541

Hey all,

If you want to know more about Bluetooth Smart in industrial, have a look at the summary/overview below which links to a series of blog posts on ECN:

http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/connecting_wirelessly/archive/2015/01/20/bluetooth-smart-in-industrial

The topics are;

  • Why Bluetooth Smart is perfect for M2M
  • Connecting machinery to the IoT
  • How to use Bluetooth Smart in industrial lighting
  • How you can replace wires with Bluetooth Smart
  • Why Beacon is the next big thing in wireless
  • The key to using Bluetooth Smart in asset tracking

Let me know if you have any questions or want to discuss any topics.

Best Regards

Joakim

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    TI__Genius 17975 points
    Thanks for sharing the link Joakim!
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    Guru 22270 points
    Excellent article Joakim!

    You touched upon a very important aspect of BLE and the CC254x that seems to be missing from the mainstream reports. Primarily, my applications have been based on industrial controls using the CC2540. I have developed Thermocouple temperature controllers, 4-20 mA Loop controllers and solar inverters using the CC2540 BLE.

    The only real limitation you wrote about with BLE is the lack of mesh networks at the moment. This can be overcome when using the CC2541 in dual mode (proprietary and BLE) where a network as robust as Zigbee can implemented. Perhaps we will hear more about these types of use cases in the near future.

    I do believe that Bluetooth SIG has declared "war" on all the other protocols, primarily WiFi. With Bluetooth now making provisions for IP integration, the mention of mesh networking and the rather quick adoption of Core 4.2 from 4.1, the Bluetooth SIG battle cry is hard to ignore.

    If you were to look carefully at what Bluetooth SIG has done from the beginning until now, you would call it a rather clever course of action. Start with a communications protocol for connecting every device to a computer. End with a device that connects everything to every thing! We saw the Basic Rate turn into High Speed and BLE. All of which can be implemented on one chip. The next logical step would be to add Super Speed to match or surpass WiFi, all on one chip.

    Bluetooth SIG only needs to do two thing in order to achieve complete market penetration:
    1. Get Apple to drop the MiFi enrollment requirement.
    2. Get there products incorporated into routers.

    I'm sure we will be hearing some announcements on those in the near future.

    Thanks for the article Joakim, it was an interesting read.