The low-power wireless market does not get the same level of coverage as the 3GPP’s wide-area ecosystem. In a long and checkered history, fierce competition in the low-power personal-area-network (PAN) market has led to slower-than-hoped-for progress, but recent updates to Z-Wave and Bluetooth are something that operators should stay abreast of. Sure, Rethink has bemoaned how operators missed the boat on providing quad-play, or even quint-play smart-home-as-a-service (ShaaS) offerings to consumers – ceding the field to Amazon and Google. However, both consumer titans are still struggling to monetize their reach, so perhaps the door is open again, for operators to step through, or more that the operators dodged a bullet? Ceva was the jumping-off point for this exploration, after the…