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Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by digi_owl on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:58AM (#12001330)
Bluetooth is already there, and if the same chip can be used in a phone or a button cell powered telemetry sensor, economies of scale kicks in.

And BTLE is specifically designed to work without the pairing dance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy

Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed by cbsmith on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @01:03PM (#12002972)
> Bluetooth is already there, and if the same chip can be used in a phone or a button cell powered telemetry sensor, economies of scale

Actually, for industrial applications, it's more likely to be Zigbee that is already there, and the economies of scale will favour it over BTLE (particularly when you consider Zigbee allows thousands of devices in a network, while BTLE can't even get to double digits). There's a ton of other advantages to Zigbee for industrial applications (not the least of which is resiliency).

Maybe you want a bluetooth bridge (though WiFi is probably very tempting for that purpose), but bluetooth is bad enough at doing its own job, let alone something else.