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Silicon Labs Supports New Bluetooth® Mesh Feature Enhancements & Networked Lighting Control Standardized Profiles
New features and standards from Bluetooth SIG supported by all Silicon Labs Series 2 Bluetooth SoCs AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs
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[{"type":"text","content":"New features and standards from Bluetooth SIG supported by all Silicon Labs Series 2 Bluetooth SoCs \nAUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, today announced their support for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's (SIG) new feature enhancements for Bluetooth Mesh as well as their new Networked Lighting Control (NLC) standard, which seeks to provide a single standard for commercial and industrial lighting using Bluetooth Mesh.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"The new enhancements and profiles released today by the SIG will be supported by Silicon Labs devices and we look forward to applying the optimizations, cost-savings, and security enhancements in the new release for our customers,\" said Ross Sabolcik, Senior Vice President of the Industrial and Commercial Business Unit at Silicon Labs. \"Silicon Labs devices have supported Bluetooth Mesh since it launched in 2017, and we have helped a countless number of our customers adopt the standard for use cases like building automation, predictive maintenance, and commercial lighting.\"\nNew Features Available Today on Silicon Labs Bluetooth SoCs and ModulesSilicon Labs devices support these new Bluetooth Mesh Feature Enhancements:\nDevice Firmware Update: Mesh deployments often have hundreds of nodes, and they rely on their firmware to keep them operating at their peak, protect against threats, and leverage the latest features of the network. Device Firmware Update greatly simplifies this process, as it now allows operators to update one device, which will then push the update to the rest of the network.Remote Provisioning: With the original iteration of Bluetooth Mesh, network operators had to provision each device individually, a costly, time-consuming, and depending on the environment, sometimes dangerous task. With remote provisioning, the network itself can help provision devices without needing an operator to be in direct range of the new device.Certificate-Based Provisioning: To better prevent counterfeit devices from infiltrating a network, unique certificates can be injected into devices during the manufacturing process to help network operators authenticate new additions to a network.Private Beacons: Enhancing network security, private beacons will use encryption t...