The current Bluetooth industry shows the dynamics of market scale growth, technological innovation and upgrading, and application scenario expansion, as follows:
- Market scale growth: According to the "2025 Bluetooth Market Latest Information", global Bluetooth device shipments will exceed 5.3 billion units in 2025 and reach nearly 8 billion units in 2029. Bluetooth dual-mode devices are still the mainstream, and platform devices such as mobile phones and tablets account for about 60% of the total shipments of Bluetooth dual-mode devices. It is expected that their shipments will grow at an average annual compound growth rate of 2% in the next five years.
- Domestic chip development: About 50% of the world's Bluetooth chips are produced in China each year. The Science and Technology Innovation Board IPOs of Beijing Onrui Microelectronics and Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics have been accepted by the Shanghai Stock Exchange. In 2024, their global market shares of low-power Bluetooth SoC chips are 5.4% and 2% respectively. Although the current Bluetooth business revenue share is not high, both plan to continue to invest resources to develop Bluetooth business.
- Technological innovation and upgrading: Bluetooth technology is moving towards ultra-low latency, high-resolution lossless audio, high-throughput data transmission and higher frequency bands. Bluetooth high throughput data transmission (HDT) speed will increase from 2 Mbps to nearly 8 Mbps, and will also expand from the traditional 2.4 GHz band to 5-6 GHz.
- Application scenario expansion: In addition to consumer electronics, Bluetooth technology is also expanding the commercial and industrial application market. In 2025, the shipment volume of Bluetooth asset tracking tags will reach 245 million units, and in 2026, 45% of wireless status tracking sensors will be equipped with Bluetooth connections. In the field of health and wearable devices, the shipment volume of Bluetooth wearable devices will reach 323 million units in 2025, and disposable health monitoring devices will become an emerging growth point.
Bluetooth technology is widely used in the Internet of Things. Here are some application cases:
Smart Home Field
- Yeelight Smart Bluetooth Mesh Network: It uses performance-enhanced Bluetooth Mesh smart self-organizing network technology, which can intelligently relay remote devices. The gateway equipped with a routing-level chip ensures that the Bluetooth Mesh network of the whole house is stable and reliable. A single gateway supports 99.99% anti-interference test success rate and 100% reconnection success rate.
- Smart door locks and mobile phone connections: For example, Xiaomi smart door locks, users can connect their mobile phones to the door locks through Bluetooth, remotely open and close the door, and check the unlocking records to understand the family's entry and exit.
Smart Transportation Field
- Vehicle and transportation facility connection: In the smart transportation systems of some cities, vehicles are connected to traffic lights, parking lots and other facilities through Bluetooth. When a vehicle approaches an intersection, it can obtain the remaining time of the signal light in advance, plan the driving speed, and find and navigate to the parking lot.
- Bluetooth communication between vehicles: Some high-end car brands such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz support Bluetooth communication between vehicles in some models, enabling real-time traffic information sharing, such as road conditions ahead and accident information, to help drivers make decisions in advance and reduce traffic congestion and accidents.
Healthcare field
- Huawei smart medical solution: In a tertiary hospital, communication modules are embedded in smart mattresses, ECG monitors and other equipment to collect patient vital signs data in real time and upload them to the doctor's workstation. At the same time, tags are deployed on valuable equipment to achieve cloud visualization of asset status and usage rate.
- Bluetooth-sensing brain pacemaker: Jilin University First Hospital successfully completed the first new generation of Bluetooth-sensing, rechargeable, and magnetic resonance-compatible "brain pacemaker" implantation in Northeast China, helping Parkinson's patients rebuild their hope for life.
Industrial Internet of Things
- Renwei Co., Ltd. Factory Personnel Positioning System: For electronic manufacturing, automobile manufacturing and other industries, it organically combines Bluetooth AOA high-precision positioning with video monitoring, sensor monitoring, etc., and uses location big data to drive the improvement of industrial manufacturing production efficiency, operation safety, and product quality.
- Bluetooth-based equipment status monitoring: In the chemical, power and other industries, Bluetooth technology is used to connect various sensors to monitor the temperature, pressure, vibration and other parameters of the equipment in real time. Once the data is abnormal, the system will alarm in time to prevent failures.
Smart city construction field
- Public transportation positioning and scheduling: In some cities, public transportation such as buses and subways are equipped with Bluetooth positioning devices. Combined with the background system, it can grasp the vehicle location, driving speed and other information in real time, realize accurate scheduling, and improve operation efficiency and service experience.
- Smart street light management: Through Bluetooth technology, urban management departments can remotely control the switch and brightness adjustment of street lights, and can also monitor the working status of street lights in real time, find faulty street lights in time for repair, and achieve energy saving and smart management.
Logistics and retail fields
- Bluetooth sound and light search smart warehousing solution: "Bluetooth sound and light search positioning management system" does not rely on traditional storage location management methods. Through high and low precision positioning + sound and light search Internet of Things technology, it provides real-time and efficient management methods for modern warehousing logistics, and improves the management efficiency of warehousing and digital workshops.
- Product temperature monitoring: The passive Bluetooth tag the size of a stamp developed by Israeli company Wiliot is embedded in food packaging or medicine and vaccine packaging to monitor temperature, prevent food spoilage, and ensure the safety of medicines and vaccines.
