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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Wireless is a methodical account of the early development of wireless telegraphy and the inventors who made it possible. Sungook Hong examines several early significant inventions, including Hertzian waves and optics, the galvanometer, transatlantic signaling, Marconi's secret-box, Fleming's air-blast key and double transformation system, Lodge's syntonic transmitter and receiver, the Edison effect, the thermionic valve, and the audion and continuous wave. Wireless fills the gap created by Hugh Aitken, who described at length the early development of wireless communication, but who did not attempt "to probe the substance and context of scientific and engineering practice in the early years of wireless" (p. x). Sungook Hong seeks to fill this gap by offering an exhaustive analysis of the theoretical and experimental engineering and scientific practices of the early days of wireless; by examining the borderland between science and technology; depicting the transformation of scientific effects into technological artifacts; and showing how the race for scientific and engineering accomplishment fuels the politic of the corporate institution. While the author succeeds in fulfilling these goals, the thesis, it seems, is to affirm Guglielmo Marconi's place in history as the father of wireless telegraphy.
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.
As we progress deeper into the digital era, we rely more and more on our electronic devices. Over the last decade, almost everyone who lives in a developed nation owns a cellphone and they are becoming an integral part of our life.
Phones have come a long way from their beginnings. When the first phone was developed, a mere phone call took up to ten minutes just to connect. The calls made on this phone would go through a system of connections where the caller would have to state who they were calling and where the person lived. It would be many years later that a telephone would be created that made use of a dial, which made calling easier. In 1963, the first pushbutton telephone was distributed by the company, Bell Telephone. In 1983, the first cellular device, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was created, which took the world by storm. Soon later, miniature computers were being put in these devices, allowing the user to browse parts of the web while on their cellular device. Yet we wouldn’t see a product that allowed us to browse the web, communicate with others, and let us store music and run apps, until 2007. (ht...
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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
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IOT systems use a combination of short-range network communication technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee, which are used to carry the information from perception devices to a nearby gateway based on the capabilities of the communicating parties. Internet technologies such as WiFi, 2G, 3G, and 4G carry the information over long distances based on the application. Applications aim to create smart homes, smart cities, power system monitoring etc. [6] Today, it is hard to manage waste collection processes and management without the use of high technology to pinpoint the locations of vehicles and recycling bins [2].
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