Adapter puts Bluetooth on USB port

A SMART Modular Technologies product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 25, 2003

SMART Modular Technologies has developed a Bluetooth-enabled USB adapter for personal computing.

SMART Modular Technologies has developed a Bluetooth-enabled USB adapter for personal computing.

This Class 2 Bluetooth adapter is compliant with Bluetooth 1.1 and USB 1.1.

The Bluetooth adapter also features SMART's BlueOpal Bluetooth stack, which offers users the ease of plug and play functionality.

SMART has developed and supplied Bluetooth enabled modules to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and has used this experience to develop the Bluetooth enabled USB adapter, which is available to retail consumers through channel distribution.

Addressing the needs of the personal area network (PAN), SMART's Bluetooth enabled adapter allows consumers to perform such functions as printing files to a Bluetooth enabled printer and dial up networking to the Internet via a wireless modem, mobile phone or other PC creating a piconet, a network of up to eight Bluetooth enabled devices, allowing such devices to communicate seamlessly in a wireless environment.

If there is a need beyond the eight devices, consumers can link multiple piconets to form a scatternet in which multiple independent nonsynchronised piconets are linked together.