Improving The Popularity Of Bluetooth 5, Mobile Phone Import Is The Key

The Bluetooth Technology Alliance (Bluetooth SIG) officially launched a new generation of Bluetooth 5 (Bluetooth 5) at the end of 2016. The transmission distance and transmission amount have been greatly improved compared with the Bluetooth 4.2 standard, but up to now, the popularity rate of Bluetooth 5 is still low. In this regard, Nordic points out that the import of mobile phone is the key to popularize Bluetooth 5, but because the application demand of Bluetooth 5 is not emerging, so the popularity rate is not as good as imaginable.

Compared with previous Bluetooth technology, the advantage of Bluetooth 5 is four times the transmission range, two times the transmission speed, and eight times the broadcast message load. In addition, it also solves the interference problem with other wireless technologies, and helps to coexist with other communication technologies in the IoT market.

However, Chen Junzhi, the sales manager of Nordic, said that most of the devices are still based on mobile phones, but the above 5 features are not necessary for mobile phones; like Bluetooth 5 can support long distance transmission, the same Wi-Fi and LTE can also be used as a long distance transmission technology. In the absence of obvious application demand, mobile phone operators do not have to choose Bluetooth 5, and Bluetooth 4.2 can meet the needs of the consumer's close transmission. Therefore, the mobile phone industry has not been importing a lot. It is one of the main reasons for the lack of rapid popularization of Bluetooth 5.

So what is the current business model of Bluetooth 5? Chen Junzhi pointed out that now the application of Bluetooth 5 is mostly for device and device (point to point) connection, for example, for data transmission between electronic barriers. When the distance between the two electronic barriers is far away and the need to communicate with each other to transmit data, Bluetooth 5 can be used as a transmission mode.

However, this kind of application is still unable to speed up the popularity of Bluetooth 5, so Chen Junzhi believes that the import of mobile phone manufacturers is still the key to the popularity of the Bluetooth 5. Because the vast majority of consumers or applications, or the habit of mobile phone based, then connected to other terminal equipment; therefore, the future of Bluetooth 5 if it is to be popularized, may have to increase the application demand, prompting the mobile phone industry to adopt Bluetooth 5, the popularity rate will gradually increase. High speed transmission may be an opportunity, as Samsung Galaxy S8/Galaxy Note 8 and iPhone 8/iPhone X of apple (Apple) are the starting points for introducing Bluetooth 5 to meet consumer demand for high-speed transmission.