Samsung Electronics has unveiled two IoT access points, claiming two industry firsts – the smallest outdoor mesh AP (supporting BLE and ZigBee), and the first AP that combines WiFi, Bluetooth LE and ZigBee. Emerging from trials in shopping malls, Samsung has opted to branch outdoors with network hardware that should enable users to build out consumer-facing IoT (internet of things) networks. This sees the Korean vendor keeping its options open in the thorny world of short range IoT connections. All three options run in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, and Samsung said that it had developed interference management technology, to prevent the protocols from clashing during simultaneous communications. Bluetooth is nearly ubiquitous in smartphones, and for mass market IoT offerings,…