{"id":3532,"date":"2019-06-04T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2019-06-04T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:11:01","slug":"why-bluetooth-is-perfect-for-the-industrial-iot-iiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/why-bluetooth-is-perfect-for-the-industrial-iot-iiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bluetooth is Perfect for the Industrial IoT (IIoT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U-Blox has a useful article on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Seven reasons why Bluetooth is perfect for the Industrial IoT (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.u-blox.com\/en\/beyond\/blog\/iot\/seven-reasons-why-bluetooth-perfect-industrial-iot\" target=\"_blank\">Seven reasons why Bluetooth is perfect for the Industrial IoT<\/a>, echoing some of our observations on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bluetooth LE on the Factory Floor (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-le-on-the-factory-floor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bluetooth LE on the Factory Floor<\/a>. The article explains why Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems and networks should consider Bluetooth as the communications infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As U-Blox mentions, there&#8217;s predicted to be 5.2 billion Bluetooth device shipments by 2022. This data is from the latest Bluetooth SIG\/ABI research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are expecting a 7x increase in annual shipments of RTLS and asset &amp; inventory management devices by 2023. Learn more about Bluetooth location services technology for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IoT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIoT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IIoT<\/a> applications in the 2019 Bluetooth Market Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jicYaSEJTf\">https:\/\/t.co\/jicYaSEJTf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoschSI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BoschSI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCW19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCW19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TO6hutqY2x\">pic.twitter.com\/TO6hutqY2x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bluetooth (@BluetoothSIG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BluetoothSIG\/status\/1128555869514403840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beacons in Industry and the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/IndustryManufacturing\" target=\"_blank\">Beacons in Industry and the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-Blox has a useful article on Seven reasons why Bluetooth is perfect for the Industrial IoT, echoing some of our observations on Bluetooth LE on the Factory Floor. The article explains why Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems and networks should consider Bluetooth as the communications infrastructure. As U-Blox mentions, there&#8217;s predicted to be 5.2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/why-bluetooth-is-perfect-for-the-industrial-iot-iiot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Bluetooth is Perfect for the Industrial IoT (IIoT)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,244,164,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}