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Bluetooth Channel Sounding is a feature designed to give connected devices more precise information about how far apart they are. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, or SIG, announced it on September 3, 2024, highlighting item finding and digital keys as possible applications. A Bluetooth connection tells devices that they can communicate. Distance awareness adds a different piece of information: how close the devices are to one another. Why would a device need distance information? Consider a tag attached to a set of keys. Knowing that the tag is nearby is helpful, but it may leave a person searching the final few steps around a room. Distance information can help a finding experience indicate whether the user is moving closer. Bluetooth SIG discussed tags for keys, wallets, backpacks and luggage, as well as finding functions embedded in other Bluetooth devices. Distance can also matter when a device acts as a digital key. Bluetooth SIG described a lock that opens only when an autho...