Bluetooth is a wireless standard developed to allow electronic equipment to make its own connections without action from a user. Bluetooth is intended to be a standard that works at two levels. • It provides agreement at the physical level. Bluetooth is a radio frequency standard. • It also provides agreement on when bits are sent, how many will be sent at a time, a redundancy check. The companies belonging to the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) …showed first 75 words of 365 total…

…showed last 75 words of 365 total…point-to-point network: a Bluetooth base unit that plugs into the bottom of the phone and the headset. Although this may seem like the technology is contradictory to its meaning of being inexpensive, once it becomes widespread the price will lower and will be worthwhile. The manufacturing market for Bluetooth will focus on the sale of embedded chips for various products, predicting a $700 million market by 2006. 13 million products will have some form of Bluetooth integration by 2006.