Wireless technologies

- including Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), WiMax, Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4), etc

These pages are focussed in Wireless technologies. For pages about cellular telecommunications, please refer to our Cellular telecommunications pages.

Wireless technology in a variety of forms is an area of electronics that is developing and growing particularly fast. Wirless LAN (WLAN) technology including Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), Bluetooth, Ultra-Wide Band (UWB), Wimax, Zigbee, and more are all growing and finding their own market areas. As a result wireless technology is being more widely used and found in many new applications.
The development of wireless technologies

Wireless technologies and standards

Wireless technology is being widely used for many applications. Accordingly there is a growing number of different wireless technologies and standards that are being used. Multipage summaries of many of the more widely used wireless standards are given below.

• Bluetooth
• DECT
• HomeRF SWAP (now obsolete)
• IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard
• IEEE 802.15.4
• IEEE 802.20 MBWA standard
• IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard
• NFC Near Field Communications
• RFID, Radio Frequency Identification technology
• Short range device, SRD
• Ultra Wideband Technology
• Wibree
• WiMAX
• Wireless USB - a technlogy utilising UWB transmissions
• Zigbee standard

Wireless Analysis

Our contributions from industry experts on various aspects of wire;ess technology looking at technology trends, case studies and analysis of the current wireless technology situation.

• The future of Bluetooth: where do we go now? Robin Heydon, CSR [2010-06]
• Real world NFC applications Jerome Nadel, Sagem Wireless [2010-03]