The Bluetooth umbrella organization Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has started a new specification development project. It is intended to define Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) operation in additional unlicensed mid-band spectrums, including the 6 GHz frequency band.
Further development of the standard for tomorrow's applications
The expansion of the mid-band spectrum aims to improve the performance of Bluetooth technology and further develop it for the future as the market demands for wireless communication continue to grow.
With over 5 billion products sold each year, Bluetooth technology is the world's most frequently installed radio standard. The Bluetooth SIG sees the continuous development of the technology over the past 20 years as one of the main reasons for the wide acceptance and success of the radio standard. Bluetooth is also being further developed in the central areas, for example to achieve higher data throughput, lower latency or greater positioning accuracy. For example, LE Audio is the next generation of Bluetooth audio technology that will deliver lower latency transmissions and an entirely new architecture to support audio applications over Bluetooth. With LC3, the Low Complexity Communication Codec, LE Audio also offers a new, higher-quality and at the same time more energy-efficient audio codec that replaces SBC and is intended to ensure high quality even at low data rates. The new project to expand the frequency spectrum and continue the performance improvements of Bluetooth should also follow on from this development.
Cooperation with Wi-Fi Alliance because of 6 GHz
Also, according to Kevin Robinson, President and CEO of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the granting of additional spectrum for unlicensed use worldwide is critical to ensure that wireless technologies can continue to meet growing connectivity demands. The Wi-Fi Alliance will work with the Bluetooth SIG on the project to ensure coexistence in the 6 GHz frequency band, as the Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 wireless standards, to which TP-Link is just beginning presented the first routers that are scheduled to start with the new WLAN standard this year.
Numerous more projects
Employees of all companies that are members of the Bluetooth SIG , are invited to participate in the development of frequency expansion in the project “Higher Bands for Low Energy”. The Bluetooth SIG has numerous other projects to improve the specifications of the standard in different areas.