Every year, the Bluetooth® community makes major strides that drive wireless innovation, overcome challenges, and create stronger, more interoperable connections around the world. Community members work diligently with global partners to deliver comprehensive case studies that validate the reliability, flexibility, and scalability of Bluetooth technology across a wide range of platforms and infrastructures, from indoor navigation to commercial connected lighting and even COVID-19 response solutions powered by Bluetooth technology.

These case studies not only highlight the impact Bluetooth technology can have in any environment, but they also serve as an ongoing reminder of how Bluetooth innovations are being used to create a more connected world, free from wires. Here is a look back at some of the top Bluetooth member case studies of 2020.

 

Reducing the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission Using Phillips’ Biosensor BX100 and Cassia’s Bluetooth Gateways

Learn how Philips partnered with Cassia Networks to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in a major Dutch hospital using Philips’ Biosensor BX100 and Cassia’s Bluetooth gateways and IoT Access Controller. Instant download.

POM Tracer Ensures Workplace Safety with Contact Tracing Solutions from Laird Connectivity

POM Tracer was looking to create an easy-to-implement product that would allow businesses and organizations to safely return employees to their offices to mitigate the risk of future shutdowns due to COVID-19. Instant download.

Scaling Up Wireless Lighting Controls

Westerner Park, Central Alberta’s largest trade show, agriculture, entertainment, and sports facility, recently become home to one of the biggest Bluetooth Mesh lighting control networks. Read more.

Energy and Cost Savings at Pioneer Markets

Pioneer market, a family-owned grocery business in Mariposa and Waterford, California relies on LED Drivers integrated with wireless Bluetooth Mesh to support a lighting system that improves the customer experience by providing higher levels of natural light. Read more.

Quuppa and Dyer Engineering

To achieve an efficient and accurate production outcome, Dyer Engineering, an innovative group of fabrication and machining businesses, turned to ThinkIN’s location tracking solution, which is a combination of Quuppa’s indoor positioning technology and ThinkIN’s software application. Read more.

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Extending an ENS to Support Wearable Devices

See how an Exposure Notification System can better address population groups critical to managing a pandemic by supporting wearables such as wristbands.

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Updated Market Trends for Bluetooth Location Services Solutions

A well-known and popular solution for audio streaming and wearable devices, Bluetooth® technology is now…

High-Accuracy Low-Power Secure Ranging using Bluetooth® Channel Sounding

Many applications use Bluetooth-based ranging and localization using received signal strength indication (RSSI), including…

Bluetooth® Low Energy Angle of Arrival Location Solution – Tags, Receiver, Antenna, Firmware, Application Software

The development of Bluetooth® Low Energy angle of arrival location solutions requires multi-disciplinary co-operation…

Distance Estimation Advantages Using Bluetooth® Channel Sounding

Bluetooth® Channel Sounding is an upcoming feature enables secure, fine ranging between two Bluetooth…

Elevating Network Excellence: The Impact of New Bluetooth® Mesh Standard

In September 2023, the Bluetooth SIG announced Bluetooth® Mesh feature enhancements, a significant milestone…

Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAwR): Bidirectional Bluetooth Advertising Is Now Possible

If you’ve wondered whether advertising in Bluetooth Low Energy can be bidirectional, then this…

Recently Released: New Trends for Bluetooth Device Networks

Though more commonly associated with audio streaming and wearable devices, Bluetooth® technology also plays…

2024 Bluetooth® Market Update

The 2024 Bluetooth® Market Update examines the direction and adoption of Bluetooth technology.

Now Available: New Bluetooth Market Research

The Latest Bluetooth Market Research For the last few years, the Bluetooth Special Interest…

How Bluetooth® NLC Standardizes Control for Smart Lighting

Discover how Bluetooth® NLC is paving a new path for lighting control and making…

Periodic Advertising with Responses (PAwR): Bidirectional Bluetooth Advertising Is Now Possible

If you’ve wondered whether advertising in Bluetooth Low Energy can be bidirectional, then this…

The Ambient IoT - The Emergence of a New Class of Bluetooth® IoT Devices

Over the past two years, the Ambient IoT has been a growing topic of…

Six Bluetooth Mesh Feature Enhancements to Get Excited About

The new Bluetooth mesh feature enhancements offer more robust security, improved network efficiency, reduced…

Bluetooth® Mesh Feature Enhancements Summary

This paper summarizes the recent Bluetooth® Mesh feature enhancements and provides references to other…

Bluetooth® Mesh Subnet Bridging - Technical Overview

This paper examines subnet bridging, a new feature introduced in the Bluetooth® Mesh protocol…

2023 Bluetooth® Market Update

Featuring new market insights and industry forecasts from ABI Research and other analyst firms...

EJOT | INDUTRAX Case Study

EJOT, headquartered in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, is a group of medium-sized companies with production…

Bringing Wireless Controls To The Epicentre Of Connectivity

This year, the time came for the lighting infrastructure at the Bluetooth SIG headquarters…

Smart Lighting And Controls Halve Energy Consumption At Campus Pitzemburg

Campus Pitzemburg has cut its energy usage by 50% thanks to smart controlled energy…

Bluetooth Location Services

See 8 use cases for enhancing building efficiencies and creating a better visitor experience, discover new data that supports the latest trends and forecasts, and find out what’s driving the rapid adoption of location services solutions.

Designing and Developing Bluetooth® Internet Gateways

Learn about Bluetooth® internet gateways, how to make them secure and scalable, and design and implement your own...

How to Make Wearables Bluetooth Mesh Provisioners

Learn how to create applications for smartwatches and other platforms that can monitor and control nodes in a Bluetooth mesh network.

Lighting as a Platform

See how connected lighting systems are being used as a platform to enable advanced building services like wayfinding, asset tracking, and space utilization to improve the ROI of smart building investments.

An Introduction to the Bluetooth Mesh Proxy Function

Learn how to create applications for smartphones and other platforms which can monitor and control nodes in a Bluetooth mesh network.

Build a Smarter Building with Blue

See how Bluetooth increases reliability, reduces costs, and enhances your smart building ROI.

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