Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial

Bluetooth is a standard that is designed to enable inexpensive,robust,and secure communications over short distances. This tutorial provided a general description of the Bluetooth standard, providing the reader with an overview of the potential as well as the limitations of this standard. The flexible architecture of Bluetooth opens the door to the design and inexpensive implementation of several applications that add a whole new dimension to short-range communications. The future holds great hope for short-range data communications, and Bluetooth goes a long way in setting the path to ubiquitous,integrated data services.