Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN for short) is a low-range wireless network that covers an area of only a few dozen meters. This network is generally used for linking peripheral devices (like ...

Personal-area networks Jun 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE Most of us use a Personal Area Network (PAN) in our daily routines in front of our desktop and notebook PCs. PANs are technically ...

Wireless experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players, games, sensors and other technology. To link ...

Up Close And Personal Networks Date: December 2, 2008 Source: ICT Results Summary: The MAGNET Beyond project developed a breakthrough platform to cope with a world where every individual owns up ...

Wireless personal-area networks are finally becoming a reality, with Bluetooth leading the way and Ultra-Wideband on the horizon.

personal area network 1 Articles . Hackaday Prize Entry: Cheap Visible Light Communication. September 3, 2016 by Gerrit Coetzee 24 Comments [Jovan] is very excited about the possibilities ...

This is the kind of intelligent solution made possible by Personal Area Networks, or PANs. For example: A family of four arrives for their stay at a hotel, ready to start their holiday.

This definitely isn't going to do anything to mitigate all the Borg jokes, but Microsoft has patented a method for turning human skin into a network that can transmit both power and data in a ...

The PAN profile, providing personal area networking services, is implemented in the pand dæmon, dial-up networking in the dund dæmon, service discovery in the sdpd dæmon and so on. In BlueZ v.4, all ...