Unwire yourself with Bluetooth technology
Introduction
With the advent of powerful electronic devices which have rich computing power and communication features the need for ubiquitous and seamless integration has arisen enormously. An average successful individual uses mobile phone for sending and receiving SMS, storing pictures and contact information while having a laptop or computer at home. Needless to talk about the gadgets used by senior management folks and IT professionals. All this has lead to the need to have a limitless and boundless integration of these devices and a common mechanism to do so. The challenge for achieving this is the capability of doing it in an individualized manner without the involvement of any infrastructure overheads. The answer lies in Bluetooth technology which is named after the 10th century Danish king Herald Bluetooth, who united Denmark and Norway bringing peace that lasted 25 years. Ericsson, the mobile devices and telecom giant which invented the Bluetooth technology inspired from the Danish king and named this technology after him, which is aptly aimed at uniting the computing and telecommunications world.Let us try and understand what this technology is all about and how does it work.
About the technology
Bluetooth is an industry standard—an open source specification available for developers to change and enhance—for short-range digital radio. It is designed to operate in the unlicensed radio spectrum known as the Industrial - Scientific - Medical (ISM) band, which is generally available in most parts of the world.
Bluetooth allows a variety of devices—not only conventional PCs, laptops, mobile phones and peripherals, but also PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and other next-generation emerging portable devices—to communicate without cables or hard wiring. It is being dubbed as the next generation communication interoperability mechanism which will touch and change the lifestyle of the masses.
Comments
Bluetooth has been really an amazing technology. There are very few area's where we can use bluetooh effectively and efficiently. Piconet is a very good example of a bluetooth application. Sharing files in remote areas and within a short range (100 m), bluetooth is amazing.
Posted by: Vandan C Desai | August 11, 2006 07:26 PM
I am hearing about bluetooth technology for a long time and was not knowing what it really is. After reading this I got an idea of how powerful it is.
Posted by: Anima | August 11, 2006 10:35 PM