• Fortune, Tuesday, January 5, 2016 9 AM

Soon your new gadgets will come with a new flavor of Wi-Fi, the radio technology that allows your digital devices to connect to the Internet without blowing through your cellular data cap. This new version isn’t designed for these gadgets, however. Instead, it will be made for the network of connected devices in your home - and even on your body - that make up the Internet of Things. The Wi-Fi Alliance calls this new standard Wi-Fi HaLow (pronounced halo), and says it doubles the distance and cuts the power consumption of traditional Wi-Fi. The Alliance would like to see Wi-Fi become a standard in smart cities where proprietary standards and cellular networks currently reign supreme, and in personal area networks for wearable devices where Bluetooth radios are used now.

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