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by wlesieutre 3889 days ago
Bluetooth Smart Ready is a stupid branding mistake. It means "This device can talk to normal Bluetooth devices and Bluetooth Low Energy devices." Bluetooth LE is apparently "Bluetooth Smart" now.

I don't think Weave and Thread are really in play yet (Nest might use Weave?). Weave looks like a protocol for phones talking to smart home devices, and thread is a network layer built on the same radios as ZigBee.

https://developers.google.com/weave/

http://threadgroup.org/