New features and standards from Bluetooth SIG
supported by all Silicon Labs Series 2 Bluetooth SoCs
AUSTIN,
Texas, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon
Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in secure, intelligent wireless
technology for a more connected world, today announced their
support for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's (SIG) new
feature enhancements for Bluetooth Mesh as well as their new
Networked Lighting Control (NLC) standard, which seeks to provide a
single standard for commercial and industrial lighting using
Bluetooth Mesh.
"The new enhancements and profiles released today by the SIG
will be supported by Silicon Labs devices and we look forward to
applying the optimizations, cost-savings, and security enhancements
in the new release for our customers," said Ross Sabolcik, Senior Vice President of the
Industrial and Commercial Business Unit at Silicon Labs. "Silicon
Labs devices have supported Bluetooth Mesh since it launched in
2017, and we have helped a countless number of our customers adopt
the standard for use cases like building automation, predictive
maintenance, and commercial lighting."
New Features Available Today on Silicon Labs Bluetooth SoCs
and Modules
Silicon Labs devices support these new Bluetooth
Mesh Feature Enhancements:
- Device Firmware Update: Mesh deployments often have
hundreds of nodes, and they rely on their firmware to keep them
operating at their peak, protect against threats, and leverage the
latest features of the network. Device Firmware Update greatly
simplifies this process, as it now allows operators to update one
device, which will then push the update to the rest of the
network.
- Remote Provisioning: With the original iteration of
Bluetooth Mesh, network operators had to provision each device
individually, a costly, time-consuming, and depending on the
environment, sometimes dangerous task. With remote provisioning,
the network itself can help provision devices without needing an
operator to be in direct range of the new device.
- Certificate-Based Provisioning: To better prevent
counterfeit devices from infiltrating a network, unique
certificates can be injected into devices during the manufacturing
process to help network operators authenticate new additions to a
network.
- Private Beacons: Enhancing network security, private
beacons will use encryption to eliminate static information in
beacons being shared outside of the network. This means that
devices on the network and their users can no longer be tracked by
malicious actors.
These four features are supported on the BG21, BG22, BG24, and
BG27 SoCs and modules.
Standardized Network Lighting Control Device Profiles Improve
Interoperability for Commercial Lighting
Part of the reason
that Bluetooth technology has become such a prevalent technology in
people's lives is its reliance on standards. Through standards, the
Bluetooth connections made between phones, PCs, headphones, game
controllers, vehicle entertainment systems, and countless others
all work because they all have built and established trust in the
device profiles that initiate these connections, and they are
universally used and available.
The Bluetooth SIG is taking that to the next step with the
release of their new Network Lighting Control (NLC) bundle of
device profiles. These standardized profiles will improve
interoperability, scalability, simplify integration in the field,
and grow the Bluetooth ecosystem. The same Silicon Labs Bluetooth
SoCs and modules that support the new feature enhancements can also
support the following NLC profiles: ambient light sensor, basic
scene selector, dimming control, basic lightness controller, and
occupancy sensor.
Build New Solutions Today with Silicon Labs and Bluetooth
Mesh
Silicon Labs customers interested in leveraging these
new Bluetooth Mesh feature enhancements should download the latest
SDK and contact Silicon Labs. In addition, developers can learn
more about Bluetooth Mesh and other Bluetooth IoT tools in Silicon
Labs' library of educational resources, including:
- The Silicon Labs Bluetooth Mesh learning center
- A new Silicon Labs Bluetooth Mesh blog
- A new white paper diving deeper into the new Bluetooth Mesh
enhancements
- The Bluetooth LE Device Development track of free on-demand
video sessions from the Silicon Labs Works With Developers
Conference
- The updated Silicon Labs Bluetooth Selector Guide
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