Wireless technology has made an irreversible impact on modern-day life. It has unchained people from their computers, allowing them to access the Internet, send and receive messages and photos, watch video and transmit important files, all from mobile devices. One of the major players in the wireless revolution is Bluetooth, a low-power, low-range wireless method of data transfer. To learn more about this technology, let’s examine its history, applications and uses, and how it functions.
History of Bluetooth
The beginnings of Bluetooth technology go back to 1994, when Jaap Haartsen and Sven Mattisson, engineers at Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, developed it as an alternative way to send data back and forth between machines over short distances. In 1998, it came to be managed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), whose primary purpose is maintaining Bluetooth. The SIG is made up of various companies working together to use Bluetooth as a means of communication between their products. Now, over 15,000 computing, consumer electronics and telecommunications companies are SIG members (“Bluetooth,” 2011).
The technology may be relatively new, but the name is quite old. Bluetooth technology acquired its moniker from a 10th-century Danish king, Harald Blåtand – translated into English, Harald Bluetooth (“Welcome to Bluetooth,” 2011). One of King Harald’s major achievements during his reign was unifying fighting groups in what is now known as the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. “Bluetooth” was chosen as the SIG’s code name in its beginnings, and ended up being the name for the new technology. It was chosen to reflect the device’s ability to simplify communication between different secto...
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Anticipate the moment at which all your personal electronic devices - headphone audio player, cellular telephone, pager, dictaphone, camcorder, personal digital assistant (PDA), electronic stylus, radiomodem, calculator, Loran positioning system, smart spectacles, VCR remote, data glove, electronic jogging shoes that count your steps and flash warning signals at oncoming cars, medical monitoring system, pacemaker (if you are so unfortunate), and anything else that you might habitually wear or occasionally carry - can seamlessly be linked in a wireless bodynet that allows them to function as an integrated system and connects them to the worldwide digital network. (Mitchell 29)
Bose Corporation is global and this enhances the private company in a big way. Some of the new devices Bose implemented are: New Bose QuietComfort 20 and 20i, Acoustic Noise cancelling and New Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker all available July 11, 2013 (Business Wire, 2013). The Bluetooth is owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and license under Bose Corporation. Since the corporation is global, this will give the company more of an opportunity to stay relevant to the business.
A small Bluetooth chip is inserted into a device, the chip replaces the cables and carries all the information normally carried by cables. Then the device transmits the information at a special frequency to a receiver Bluetooth chip via an antenna (made of copper wiring) attached on to the Bluetooth chip. The wave is produced by the movement of the electrons up and down in the antenna when data is transmitted from the master device. (Freeman, 2001) The Bluetooth chip and its antenna are shown in figure 1.
In April of 1973, a man named Martin Cooper altered the way of communication for the rest of his days and many years to come. He possessed a dream that would better the way we conversed with one another from a distance. Back in those times, the closest thing to “cellular technology” was a car phone made by the AT&A Company but, Martin and his determined Motorola group yearned higher heights and deeper depths for communication- and thus the birth of the first cell phone was in process. Cooper wanted to exceed the limitations of just simple “car conversation”. After consistent tedious hours of production, lasting a several month long period of building, critiquing, and finalizing, the first cell phone was born. The first mobile device was the size of a cinderblock and weighed the equivalence of its worth- a stack of
Dr. Jaap Haartsen, a Dutch Engineer, while working at Ericsson in Europe invented Bluetooth in the 1990's. Bluetooth was originally developed as a wireless alternative to data cables. By the 21st century, several manufacturers saw the potential of Bluetooth and began to incorporate them into the designs of their products, mobile phones, and computers. In the 21st century, Bluetooth had become a part of our daily lives that allows us to become more mobile.
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