{"id":196269,"date":"2024-09-16T19:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/bluetooth-6-0-is-almost-here-and-its-bringing-a-useful-feature"},"modified":"2024-09-21T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T05:26:02","slug":"bluetooth-6-0-is-almost-here-and-its-bringing-a-useful-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/bluetooth-6-0-is-almost-here-and-its-bringing-a-useful-feature","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth 6.0 is almost here, and it\u2019s bringing a useful feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bluetooth-6-0-is-almost-here-and-its-bringing-a-useful-feature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most exciting features in Bluetooth 6.0 is called \u201cChannel Sounding,\u201d which makes it possible to locate lost devices and\/or other objects with much more precision than previous versions of Bluetooth. In fact, you\u2019ll be able to locate them down to the centimeter.<\/p>\n<p>And this device detection feature isn\u2019t just for close-range uses \u2014 it will be able to work across long distances and be just as effective. If it lives up to the hype, this improvement could significantly improve devices like Apple\u2019s AirTag and apps like Google\u2019s Find My Device.<\/p>\n<p>Bluetooth 6.0\u2019s Channel Sounding could even find its way into more types of devices that need protection against loss, such as remote controls (which somehow tend to disappear without a trace).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting features in Bluetooth 6.0 is called \u201cChannel Sounding,\u201d which makes it possible to locate lost devices and\/or other objects with much more precision than previous versions of Bluetooth. In fact, you\u2019ll be able to locate them down to the centimeter. And this device detection feature isn\u2019t just for close-range uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196466,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196269\/revisions\/196466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}