Bluetooth – Advantages And Disadvantages

March 5, 2010 by Ali Raja  
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In the key marketplace, of wireless and handheld devices, the closest competitor to Bluetooth is infrared.  Infrared holds many key features,  although the line of sight it provides doesn’t go through walls or through obstacles like that of the Bluetooth technology.

Unlike infrared, Bluetooth isn’t a line of sight and it provides ranges of up to 100 meters.  Bluetooth is also low power and low processing with an overhead protocol.  What this means, is that it’s ideal for integration into small battery powered devices.  To put it short, the applications with Bluetooth are virtually endless. 

Disadvantages

Bluetooth has several positive features and one would be extremely hard pressed to find downsides when given the current competition.  The only real downsides are the data rate and security.  Infrared can have data rates of up to 4 MBps, which provides
very fast rates for data transfer, while Bluetooth only offers 1 MBps.

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