New standards help sustain Bluetooth's popularity

BLUETOOH WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY continues to gain design wins over a wide range of applications due in part to its small-form factor radio, low power, low cost, built-in security, robustness, ease-of-use, and ad-hoc networking abilities.New research from In-Stat, Bluetooth 2011: Rapid Growth for Established Interface, is predicting continued success. Noting a 23% increase in Bluetooth device shipments between 2009 and 2010, the report forecasts that shipments will exceed 2 billion in 2013.“Bluetooth has been bolstered in the past year by the emergence of two new standards”, said research director Brian O’Rourke, in the report’s press release. “Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed combines classic Bluetooth...