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Summary
Summary
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.
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Writing in an informal style, Gratton (technology author/journalist) provides a comprehensive reference on wireless technology and protocols. The top-down approach will guide newcomers, and the rich contents will satisfy more-experienced readers. The most valuable aspect is the author's reasoned presentation of the wireless technology taxonomy. The road map contained in the handbook finally clarifies the many disjointed industry standards through an understandable, detailed description of modern personal area networking technologies, their commonalities, and their differences. This is just the starting point for an in-depth, detailed view of the functionality each standard affords, down to the individual fields of frame formats. There is enough material in the book to make sense of any wireless standard and to start using the application-programming interface with ease. Software engineers and programmers who need guidance in this field will find great value in this book. Hardware designers can gain a deeper understanding of the end-user requirements for the devices they build, but they will not find detailed hardware specifications. --Luigi Benedicenti, University of Regina
Table of Contents
| Part I What's In Your Area Network?: |
| 1 It's a small wireless world |
| 2 What is a personal area network? |
| 3 The Wireless Melting Pot |
| Part II The Wireless Sensor Network: |
| 4 Introducing low power and wireless sensor technologies |
| 5 Bluetooth low energy |
| 6 Low power Wi-Fi |
| 7 Control your world with ZigBee |
| 8 Green, smart and wireless: EnOcean |
| 9 The Power of less: ANT |
| Part III The Classic Personal Area Network: |
| 10 Introducing classic personal area networking technologies |
| 11 Simplifying connectivity with NFC |
| 12 802.11a/b/g/n and Wi-Fi |
| 13 Bluetooth: more than cable replacement |
| 14 Making the universal connection with WirelessUSB |
| 15 One standard, all devices: WHDI |
| Part IV Coming Soon, So Watch This Space!: |
| 16 Other technologies and future applications |
