As the Bluetooth community looks to dominate the smart home’s short-range connectivity, it has become increasingly urgent that it supports mesh, one of the major advantages which 802.15.4-based rivals like ZigBee, 6LoWPAN and Google-backed Thread boast. The Bluetooth SIG has created a working group to explore a mesh standard, though it will still not have a working profile until next year. The SIG announced the formation of its Bluetooth Smart Mesh Working Group this week and aims to start prototype testing later this year and to adopt profiles officially in 2016. There are already Bluetooth mesh technologies out there, notably from UK-based chip designer CSR (soon to be part of Qualcomm), and also from Zuli, but the SIG’s work is…