Jon Gunnar is the Technical Support Group Manager of Nordic Semiconductor. He graduated with a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Radio communications at NTNU in 1999, and has been working at Nordic since 2001. His responsibility is to provide Nordics customers with world class technical support through online forums and face to face meetings.
Like all communication technologies, Bluetooth is a better fit for some applications than others. If you're considering using Bluetooth, here’s an outline of the primary factors that determine the effective range of Bluetooth communications, plus some ways to improve it with networking. This article is now updated with the addition of Bluetooth 5 performance.