Creative Connectivity - the site for eHealth, telematics and wireless

Bluetooth Low Energy rides the Wave at Electronica

It took time coming, but in Munich last week, Bluetooth low energy had definitely arrived.


All I want for Christmas is Smart Energy

Personalised Smart Energy Displays for Christmas? Yes please, Santa.


Ten Wireless Standards, Sitting on the Wall…

And if one wireless standard should accidentally fall… (Although in the Smart Energy world they’re at greater risk of being pushed.)


What’s the value of ZigBee?

Consolidation is continuing within the ZigBee industry, but at ever lower values. The remaining investors must be getting worried…


Bluetooth low energy - aiming for the trillions

It’s the start of everything around you being able to tell you something. We really are about to create the Internet of Things…


Smart Metering – the next Y2K bonanza?

Everyone seems to agree that we need smart meters, but who will be the main beneficiary from their deployment? Could it be consultants and their retirement plans…?


Who owns Smart Energy?

If you can’t win, take their name away instead. ZigBee patents Smart Energy…


Smart Energy, mHealth and the Chocolate Factory

If you think you’ve got a data overload problem, shed a tear for the mHealth and Smart Energy industries.



Full Bluetooth low energy standard published

Not everyone managed to make it to Seattle, but nothing as insignificant as a volcano was going to hold Bluetooth low energy down…


About Creative Connectivity

Creative Connectivity is Nick Hunn's blog on aspects and applications of wireless connectivity. Having worked with wireless for over twenty years I've seen the best and worst of it and despair at how little of its potential is exploited.

I hope that's about to change, as the demands of healthcare and transport apply pressure to use wireless more intelligently for consumer health devices and telematics. These are my views on the subject - please let me know yours.

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