Having beaten the Bluetooth SIG to the punch with its own version of a Bluetooth-powered mesh network, CSR has been put to task heading up the SIG’s Smart Mesh Study Group, which will create a new Bluetooth profile for mesh networking. In the meantime, and having just finally acquired by Qualcomm for $2.4bn, CSR has released new CSRmesh sensor and actuator functionality to power its smart home ambitions – and hinted that it could look at implementing the emerging Nest-backed Thread 802.15.4 mesh networking protocol over Bluetooth radios, in an interview with Fortune. The latest software release for the CSRmesh Home Automation platform adds sensor and actuator models to the original protocol’s lighting-focused framework. CSR says this makes it possible…