The Handbook of Personal Area Networking Technologies and Protocols [Hardcover]

This definitive handbook demystifies personal-area networking technologies and protocols and explores their application potential in a unique real-world context.An authoritative review of the complete short-range RF domain, this definitive handbook demystifies personal-area networking technologies and protocols and explores their application potential in a unique real-world context. An essential read for students, researchers, engineers, product planners and technical marketers alike.An authoritative review of the complete short-range RF domain, this definitive handbook demystifies personal-area networking technologies and protocols and explores their application potential in a unique real-world context. An essential read for students, researchers, engineers, product planners and technical marketers alike.This handbook offers an unparalleled view of wireless personal area networking technologies and their associated protocols. It lifts the lid on their growing adoption within the consumer electronics, home automation, sports, health and well-being markets. Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, EnOcean and ANT+ are comprehensively covered, along with other WPAN technologies including NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth classic and high speed, and WHDI. It also features 802.11ac, the Internet of Things, Wireless USB, WiGig and WirelessHD. The handbook shows how white space radio, cellular and Femtocells have inadvertently blurred the boundaries between personal and wide area communications, creating disruptive topologies through technology convergence. It explores how pervasive WAN technologies have spawned a new generation of consumers through the Lawnmower Man Effect and explains how our personal space has become integral to social media streams, including Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. An essential read for students, software engineers and developers, product planners, technical marketers and analysts.Part I. What's in your Area Network?: 1. It's a small wireless world; 2. Wlc›