Bluetooth Glossary and Free Tutorials
Bluetooth technology enables sharing voice, music, photos, videos, and other information wirelessly between any two paired Bluetooth devices.
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- ACL control (ACL-C) Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Asynchronous Connection-oriented (ACL)
- Asynchronous/Isochronous user (ACL-U) logical link
- Audio/video control transport protocol (AVCTP)
- Audio/video data transport protocol (AVDTP)
- Bluetooth network encapsulation protocol (BNEP)
- Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)
- Channel identifiers (CIDs)
- Enhanced Data Rate (EDR)
- HandsFree Profile (HFP)
- Headset Profile (HSP)
- Host controller interface (HCI)
- Host/controller interface (HCI)
- Human Interface Device Profile (HID)
- Link control (LC) logical link
- Link management protocol (LMP)
- Link manager (LM)
- Link Manager Protocol (LMP)
- Logical link control and adaptation protocol (L2CAP)
- Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (LCAP)
- Logical transport address (LT_ADDR)
- Low Energy Attribute Protocol (ATT)
- Low Energy Link Layer (LE LL)
- Low Energy Security Manager Protocol (SMP)Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH)
- Object exchange (OBEX)
- Overview of Bluetooth
- Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)
- Physical layer (PHY)
- Profile Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS)
- Profile Tuning Suite (PTS)
- Radio frequency communication (RFCOMM)
- SerialPortProfile (SPP)
- Service discovery protocol (SDP)
- Synchronous connection-oriented (SCO)
- Telephony control protocol (TCP)
A Look at the Basics of Bluetooth Wireless Technology
Bluetooth technology is a short-range communications technology that is simple, secure, and everywhere. You can find it in billions of devices ranging from mobile phones and computers to medical devices and home entertainment products. It is intended to replace the cables connecting devices, while maintaining high levels of security.
The key features of Bluetooth technology are robustness, low power, and low cost. The Bluetooth Specification defines a uniform structure for a wide range of devices to connect and communicate with each other.
When two Bluetooth enabled devices connect to each other, this is called pairing. The structure and the global acceptance of Bluetooth technology means any Bluetooth enabled device, almost everywhere in the world, can connect to other Bluetooth enabled devices located in proximity to one another.
Connections between Bluetooth enabled electronic devices allow these devices to communicate wirelessly through short-range, ad hoc networks known as piconets. Piconets are established dynamically and automatically as Bluetooth enabled devices enter and leave radio proximity meaning that you can easily connect whenever and wherever it’s convenient for you.
Each device in a piconet can also simultaneously communicate with up to seven other devices within that single piconet and each device can also belong to several piconets simultaneously. This means the ways in which you can connect your Bluetooth devices is almost limitless.
A fundamental strength of Bluetooth wireless technology is the ability to simultaneously handle data and voice transmissions. which provides users with a variety of innovative solutions such as hands-free headsets for voice calls, printing and fax capabilities, and synchronization for PCs and mobile phones, just to name a few.
The range of Bluetooth technology is application specific. The Core Specification mandates a minimum range of 10 meters or 30 feet, but there is no set limit and manufacturers can tune their implementations to provide the range needed to support the use cases for their solutions.