Bluetooth is a wireless communication technology in the UHF-range from 2.402-2.480 GHz. The IEEE standardized Bluetooth in IEEE 802.15.1, but no longer maintains the standard. Instead, the Bluetooth SIG oversees development, specification, qualification program and protects the trademarks. An important boost came with the introduction of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as a subset of the Bluetooth v4.0 core specification. The entirely new protocol stack for rapid build-up of simple links is aimed at very low power coin-cell applications such as advertising beacons for indoor navigation and asset tracking.In 2017 the Bluetooth SIG introduced Bluetooth Mesh on top of the Bluetooth v4.2 specification. In difference to classical Bluetooth and BLE, the new technology allows many-to-many communication by using advertising channels only. It is based on a forwarding mechanism (relay-function) and a publish/subscribe method for data exchange. Bluetooth Mesh is not limited by the direct connection range.
The LOYBT product line is based on the Bluetooth SIG qualified mesh and represents a wireless ecosystem for field devices. Other product lines (e.g. L-DALI sensors) with Bluetooth use BLE to advertise either standard beacons with configurable identifier like iBeacon or EddyStone-UID which allows them to be perfectly integrated in indoor navigation systems. The L-WEB beacon enables secure room operation using the L-WEB-App, as it restricts access to LWEB-900 functions to the close vicinity of the L-WEB beacon.