Hi everyone,
A few weeks ago, the Bluetooth SIG Blog interviewed Teo Swee Ann, Espressif Systems’ founder and CEO, who shared his insight into the current and future use cases of Espressif’s open-source Bluetooth mesh protocol stack. ESP-BLE-MESH is widely used across smart-home, smart-lighting, and smart-industry environments.
“The most common use case for our Bluetooth® mesh solution in the smart lighting market is connecting the lighting equipment using the Bluetooth mesh topology. This can be implemented effectively in home, enterprise, industrial, or public environments”, said Teo Swee Ann. Regarding the role of Bluetooth mesh in the future of smart lighting, he added: “Based on current market data, we anticipate an increase in the penetration of Bluetooth® mesh in the smart lighting market. For example, combining Bluetooth AoA/AoD technology with Bluetooth mesh will enable indoor positioning through lighting networks that will facilitate various consumer and business-oriented use cases, such as asset tracking. With the ability of Bluetooth mesh to provide device-to-device communication and connect to the internet via a gateway, more smart-lighting systems will be developed.”
Teo Swee Ann, then, went on to talk about potential future applications of the Bluetooth mesh technology: “Through the combination of Bluetooth mesh, voice-and-image recognition, smart home sensors, and machine learning, technology will adapt to human needs even better, improving the quality of everyday life even further.” To read the whole of Teo Swee Ann’s interview, click on the picture below.
Other topics you can read about in this month’s newsletter include:
Toit’s Cloud-managed Containers on ESP32
Secure your code on ESP32 with lightweight containers, and orchestrate them through Toit’s cloud API.
ESP-USB: Espressif’s Wireless Communication Solution
A USB interface is integrated into Espressif’s ESP32-S series of SoCs, enabling video streaming over Wi-Fi, accessing the Internet through a 4G hotspot, connecting to a wireless USB disk, and many other applications.
Adding Vision to ESP32 with Edge Impulse
You only need a few lines of additional code to run powerful machine-learning algorithms on ESP32, especially if you also use the Arduino framework and Edge Impulse.
UDOO KEY Combines RP2040 and ESP32 in a New AI Dev Board
UDOO KEY is a fully programmable board combining RP2040 and ESP32 into a single solution. It allows you to use either RP2040, or ESP32, or even both, so that you can build any AI project on your terms.
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