Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 "wireless personal-area networks," or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form ...

A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN for short) is a low-range wireless network that covers an area of only a few dozen meters. This network is generally used for linking peripheral devices (like ...

Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

How to Turn on Bluetooth on an HP TouchSmart. Your HP TouchSmart's integrated Bluetooth adapter creates a Personal Area Network, or PAN, for connecting business devices such as a printer, cell ...

I installed Win7 64b but the driver for my ancient .11g usb adapter wouldn't connect. I had an old Bluetooth adapter so I set up a PAN on my tablet and connected to that. The invoice lists the BT ...

Because it was designed for high-speed file transfer between devices in a PAN (Personal Area Network), Bluetooth features a complex protocol with a large overhead (to ensure flexibility), reducing ...

In BlueZ releases prior to version 4, the various Bluetooth services (called profiles) are implemented in separate dæmons, each with its own configuration. The PAN profile, providing personal area ...

Personal-area networks Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE Most of us use a Personal Area Network (PAN) in our daily routines in front of our desktop and notebook PCs. PANs are technically ...

Imagine using a cell phone to create your own personal area network that connects not only your laptop and PDA (personal digital assistant) but also an array of other devices like a wristwatch ...

Perhaps dissatisfied with the glacial pace of Wibree, Qualcomm's working on an ultra-low-power, short-range wireless transfer tech of its own -- it's called Peanut, and executives claim it only ...