The Bluetooth Special Interest Group wants to raise Bluetooth’s profile in the Internet of Things with a toolkit for building gateways between the short-range wireless network and the Internet.

The toolkit should make it easier to build gateways that collect data wirelessly from Bluetooth devices and then transfer it to the cloud via Ethernet, mobile broadband or other networks.

A basic use of gateways could be medical devices automatically sending and receiving health information from doctors far away. Light usage data could also be aggregated from many Bluetooth-connected smart bulbs in a building, then sent via a gateway to a cloud service for analysis.

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