The patent application was filed in September and was issued by the U. By the end of that year, there were already members. The first Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, the Ericsson T36 , was brought to market in The following year saw the first Bluetooth-enabled printers, laptops and hands-free car kits. Bluetooth hit the wearable gadgetry wave early with Bluetooth chips implanted within watches and sunglasses in By , annual shipments of Bluetooth-enabled products reached 2 billion worldwide.
At the end of , membership in Bluetooth SIGS had reached 24, members and hit 90 percent penetration into the mobile phone market. Anyone who has followed our coverage of technological trends here on IPWatchdog will probably realize that the ubiquity of the Bluetooth data transmission system puts it squarely into the rapidly expanding Internet of Things sector.
In recent years, Bluetooth has developed the Bluetooth Smart system which improves battery power efficiency, enabling longer usage in devices with small batteries. Everyday objects like shoes, speakers or toothbrushes can be implanted with a Bluetooth Smart chip to connect directly with apps on a smartphone or tablet, making it a pretty valuable communications protocol for IoT technologies. Bluetooth chips are already installed within a diverse array of things which are available in the consumer tech market.
Short-range connectivity has already been used to introduce a collection of wireless computer peripherals like mice or keyboards. A team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a Bluetooth-enabled fingernail trackpad called NailO which allows a user to interact with a mobile phone or computer unobtrusively.
Steve Brachmann is a freelance journalist located in Buffalo, New York. The first-ever Bluetooth GPS receiver for mobile devices. The first Bluetooth mice, keyboards and printers came out in the early s too.
Those were more suitable for computers, which were gaining Bluetooth abilities through add-in cards and soon USB dongles. Bluetooth 2. It was an optional feature and it was still too slow for heavy duty data transfers. The new standard did also boost the range to 30m ft. But the true boost to performance would come in with Bluetooth 3. This used a Bluetooth link to do the handshaking between the two devices then handed off the data to But with things like Wi-Fi Direct on the horizon and ever faster cell network speeds, fast Bluetooth would quickly become irrelevant.
Bluetooth 4. The project started at Nokia under the name Wibree, but that would be incorporated into the next generation of Bluetooth. Version 4. They could work for years on a single coin cell battery. Home Home. About Us. Code for Collaboration In , three industry leaders, Intel, Ericsson, and Nokia, met to plan the standardization of this short-range radio technology to support connectivity and collaboration between different products and industries.
New Use Cases Close. Recent Enhancements Close. Mesh Networking Close. Key Attributes Close. Develop with Bluetooth Close. Jaap Haartsen has been active in the area of wireless communications for more than 25 years. In , he laid the foundations for the system that was later known as the Bluetooth Wireless Technology, enabling connections between a seemingly endless array of devices. In , while in Sweden, Haartsen started working on indoor wireless communication systems.
He was tasked with finding a solution for short-range radio connections that would add functionality to mobile phones and enable new sales.
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