Overview#

Bluetooth Low Energy is a wireless Personal Area Network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, security, and home entertainment industries.

Compared to Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and cost while maintaining a similar communication range.

Bluetooth Smart was originally introduced under the name Wibree by Nokia in 2006.[4] It was merged into the main Bluetooth standard in 2010 with the adoption of the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0.

Bluetooth Low Energy is often used with Tracking tags

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• BLE
• Client To Authenticator Protocol
• Tracking tags
• Web Authentication API
• WebAuthn Authenticator