Applications of Bluetooth. Advantages and Disadvantages of Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a wireless technology used for transferring data from one device to another device. The distance between the two devices is very short from the fixed , mobile devices and building personal area network. Its physical range is from 10m to 100m.

Bluetooth

Applications of Bluetooth Technology

• The Bluetooth is used in wireless head sets.
• By using Bluetooth we can transfer files, images and MP3 or MP4  to other cell phones.
• It is used in laptops and notebooks.
• It is used in PDAs (personal digital assistant).
• It is also used in printers.
• It is almost used in wireless communication (WAN).
• It is used in wireless mouse and keyboards.
• It is used for sending small advertisements from Bluetooth enabled advertising hoardings to other, discover able, Bluetooth devices.

  Advantages of Bluetooth

• Advantage of Bluetooth is that it does not require any wire to connect with other devices.
• It is cheap
• It uses wireless communication to transfer files from one device to another.
• It has become the transfer of files very easy.
• There is no setup file to install the Bluetooth, it has built in software.
• We can see the Bluetooth in the smart phones, music players, speakers etc.
• Global technology specifications are used in the Bluetooth.
• It makes connecting to different devices convenient.
• After installation it is free to use.
• Bluetooth devices are available at very cheap cost.
• It can pass through walls.
• It has low power consumption.

Disadvantages of Bluetooth

• It is not very useful to transfer big files.
• It takes much time to transfer heavy file, which consumes a large amount of mbs.
• It can lose connection in certain conditions.
• It has low bandwidth as compared to Wi-Fi.
• The key problem is security issue as it can be hacked.
• It allows only short range communication between devices.
• It can only connect two devices at once.