Bluetooth will become an intelligent home interconnection standard

In the 2014 Bluetooth Asia Conference, Bluetooth Technology Alliance CMO Chovente said to Sohu it, Bluetooth Technology alliance with partners, together to promote Bluetooth technology in the field of intelligent home popularization. Bluetooth technology will become a unified standard in the field of intelligent family.

In the field of intelligent home, for a variety of different purposes, the current home appliances manufacturers, internet manufacturers introduced smart home devices are generally unable to interconnect. As the current Bluetooth technology has been widely used in smartphones, tablets and other mobile terminals, Bluetooth Technology Alliance will be a joint member enterprises, and jointly promote equipment interoperability work.

Chovente to Sohu It said, mobile communications, Bluetooth, WiFi, these three technologies will become the intelligent home domain interconnection standards. Bluetooth technology will also be better to coexist with two other technologies. For various reasons, there are many different technical standards in the field of IoT. If users only want to allow several devices to achieve interoperability, you can use other things networking communications technology, but if you want to achieve a wide range of intelligent equipment interconnection, Bluetooth is a better choice.

On the pros and cons of WiFi and Bluetooth, Chovente stressed that Bluetooth and WiFi are complementary, the difference is mainly in energy. WiFi is more energy efficient and is suitable for mass data transmission. WiFi is a good choice if the device can use an external power supply. However, the use of Bluetooth technology is a good choice for devices that use batteries, and for low data transmission requirements, because of the extremely low energy consumption of Bluetooth. It is understood that at present some manufacturers of Bluetooth products, a button battery can support equipment for 2 years of continuous work.

Bluetooth Technology Alliance believes that within five years, the following four areas will be the focus of Bluetooth development:

1. Health and Fitness: wearable equipment and medical care

2, Consumer electronics: Set-top box, TV, media box, remote control, etc.

3, Intelligent Home

4, Beacons and retail industry: indoor positioning and payment

It is understood that in order to promote the popularity of Bluetooth technology, the current Bluetooth technology Alliance has launched a full Chinese portal to help domestic enterprises better understand and apply Bluetooth technology.

It is understood that in 2013-2014, the Bluetooth Alliance Asia-Pacific member annual growth rate of 30%, of which nearly 60% of the members from China. According to ABI data, 2014, the global Bluetooth equipment shipments will reach about 3 billion. By 2018, more than 96% of mobile phones will support Bluetooth smart devices. More and more mobile devices are built into Bluetooth, which also clears the barriers to their technology popularity.