  Six years after the adoption of the standard 4.0, the Bluetooth Special
Interest Group (SIG), a non-profit association that deals with the study and
the development of technology standards including those of Bluetooth, has
officially released the main features of Bluetooth 5.0. It is one of the
significant developments in short-range wireless communication technology. As
stated by the SIG, the new standard will forever change the way people approach
the Internet of Things (IoT), turning it into something that takes place around
them in an almost natural and transparent way. In this article, the future IoT
scenarios and use cases that justify the push for Bluetooth 5 are introduced. A
set of new technical features that are included in Bluetooth 5 are presented,
and their advantages and drawbacks are described.
