The Bluetooth SIG is bracing itself for a bumper year, in which it will unleash its mesh networking update, as well as significant performance increases – if all goes to plan. This week, the SIG is unveiling the Transport Discovery Service (TDS) – a way for Bluetooth to act as a network coordinator so that power-hungry protocols can prolong battery life. Essentially, the TDS allows a developer to use Bluetooth hardware as a way of conserving battery power, by moving the small tasks into the low-power protocol so that the more power-intensive protocols spend less time on the air. This means, in theory, that a WiFi device can keep tabs on other WiFi devices in its local network by using…