piconet

Devices on a piconet share a common data channel where data is transferred in packets.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz 2003

Bluetooth devices that are communicating with one another are said to have formed a “piconet”.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz 2003

A piconet can consist of one Master device, up to seven active Slave devices, and 248 devices in standby mode.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz 2003

The piconet channel has a capacity of one Megabit per second including the overhead of the header and handshaking information.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz 2003

Devices that have formed a piconet ignore signals from other bluetooth devices or other piconets.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Bluetooth, The Technology Buzz 2003

For two Bluetooth devices to communicate, a unique frequency pattern, or a piconet, must be established between them.

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Once they're synched up, a Bluetooth-compatible car and a cell phone ride on the same piconet.

chicagotribune.com - News 2011

A wireless connection is made via a low-power short-range radio to connect devices in a piconet or small local area network at a peak connection rate of 1 megabit per second.

Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

NetX achieves its high performance as a result of its zero-copy, piconet architecture, which enables processing to be scaled to eliminate excessive overhead not needed for a particular application.

Engineering Hardware-Software 2010

The application for patent, made available on Thursday, reveals that Apple is working on an ad-hoc social network that would enable users to communicate with one another without using a central access point or mobile-device networks such as Bluetooth's personal area network (PAN) or piconet (an ad-hoc computer network that links a group of devices using Bluetooth technology).

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