Having beaten the Bluetooth SIG to the punch in launching a mesh implementation, Qualcomm-owned CSR has been tasked with heading up the SIG’s Smart Mesh Study Group, which will create a new Bluetooth profile in this area. In the meantime, just after its $2.4bn acquisition by Qualcomm was finalized, CSR has released sensor and actuator functionality for CSRmesh, to power its smart home ambitions – and it hinted that it could look at implementing the emerging Nest-backed Thread 802.15.4 mesh networking protocol over Bluetooth radios. 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 for developers to deliver HVAC, door lock and…