The Bluetooth SIG says it will announce Bluetooth 5.0 this week, with promises of twice the speed and four times the range for its low-power profiles, and an 8x improvement in its broadcast messaging capacity. Also in the works are the launch of its mesh networking implementation, which would finally see the SIG provide a protocol that is ideal for IoT developers The protocol itself is expected to make it to market towards the end of this year, or early next year, and will be forgoing the numerical naming scheme in favor of one that will provide simpler clues to consumers. The broadcast messaging function aims to provide a “connectionless IoT,” where a Bluetooth device doesn’t need to be paired…