WPAN

WPAN

1. What is it?

   • A WPAN (wireless personal area network) is a personal area network
   • a network for interconnecting devices centered around an individual person's workspace - in which the connections are wireless

2. what does it do?

   • WPANs address wireless networking and mobile computing devices such as PCs, PDAs, peripherals, cell phones, pagers and consumer electronics

3. Bluetooth

   • Bluetooth Personal Area Network (PAN) is a technology that enables you to create an Ethernet network with wireless links between mobile computers, mobile phones, and handheld devices
   • You can connect to the following types of Bluetooth enabled devices that work with PAN: A personal area network user (PANU) device

4. very energy-efficient

5. 1 Mbps over a maximum range of about thirty metres

6. well-suited to use in small devices

7. wireless personal area network (WPAN)

8. IEEE 802.15 is a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE 802 standards committee which specifies wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards

9. 10 major areas of development, not all of which are active