Advantages And Disadvantages Of Bluetooth

Bluetooth has a lot to offer with an increasingly   difficult marketplace. There many advantages and disadvantages too. Advantages Bl uetoot...

Bluetooth has a lot to offer with an increasingly difficult marketplace. There many advantages and disadvantages too.

Advantages

Bluetooth helps to bring with it the promise of freedom from the cables and simplicity in networking that has yet to be matched by LAN (Local Area Network).

In the key marketplace, of wireless and handheld devices, the closest competitor to Bluetooth is infrared. Infrared holds many key features, although the line of sight it provides doesn’t go through walls or through obstacles like that of the Bluetooth technology.

Unlike infrared, Bluetooth isn’t a line of sight and it provides ranges of up to 100 meters. Bluetooth is also low power and low processing with an overhead protocol. What this means, is that it’s ideal for integration into small battery-powered devices. To put it short, the applications with Bluetooth are virtually endless.

Bluetooth helps in wireless connectivity without internet in a short distance. Bluetooth technology is one of the greatest technology ever invented.

Disadvantages

Bluetooth has several positive features and one would be extremely hard-pressed to find downsides when given the current competition. The only real downsides are the data rate and security. Infrared can have data rates of up to 4 MBps, which provides very fast rates for data transfer, while Bluetooth only offers 1 MBps.

The greater range and radio frequency (RF) of Bluetooth make it much more open to interception and attack. For this reason, security is a very key aspect of the Bluetooth specification.

Although there are very few disadvantages, Bluetooth still remains the best for short-range wireless technology. Those who have tried it love it, and they know for a fact that Bluetooth will be for years to come. Thus, Bluetooth is not going to actually end.