The Handbook of Personal Area Networking Technologies and Protocols
- 5h 55m
- Dean Anthony Gratton
- Cambridge University Press
- 2013
This handbook offers an unparalleled view of wireless personal area networking technologies and their associated protocols. It lifts the lid on their growing adoption within the consumer electronics, home automation, sports, health and well-being markets. Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, EnOcean and ANT+ are comprehensively covered, along with other WPAN technologies including NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth classic and high speed, and WHDI. It also features 802.11ac, the Internet of Things, Wireless USB, WiGig and WirelessHD. The handbook shows how white space radio, cellular and Femtocells have inadvertently blurred the boundaries between personal and wide area communications, creating disruptive topologies through technology convergence. It explores how pervasive WAN technologies have spawned a new generation of consumers through the Lawnmower Man Effect and explains how our personal space has become integral to social media streams, including Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. An essential read for students, software engineers and developers, product planners, technical marketers and analysts.
About the Author
Dr Dean Anthony Gratton is a bestselling author and columnist.
Dean has worked extensively within the wireless communications/telecoms R&D industry and has an accomplished career in software engineering, software/solution architecting, technical project management. He has developed, architected, led teams across several new product developments and has authored technical documentation for the Smart Grid/Metering energy industry: SMETS1/2, DECC (Siemens); transportation (ProData, Arriva); automotive (Visteon, Volkswagen); mobile (cellular) phones (Philips, Iconovate); VoIP, IPTV, DigitalTV, broadband (Philips, France Télécom, Telefonica, Thomson); Femtocells (Thomson); Bluetooth wireless technology (TDK, IBM, Intel, 3Com, Alcatel, Visteon, Equivox, Sony, Plantronics), Wi-Fi (Philips, Sony); ZigBee/Z-Wave technology (Philips, Siemens) and NFC (Philips).
Dean has always maintained a hands-on approach to technical project management, technical/software architecture and new product development. He has consistently worked within challenging timeframes and budgets; delivered projects on time and has always maintained an open and honest communication ethos when managing customer relationships/third parties, stakeholders and/or senior management, all of which has been undertaken across multi-disciplined teams and in an international environment.
Dean is also a bestselling author and a popular columnist covering a breadth of wireless technologies. He has contributed to a number of industry periodicals, where he has written many contentious articles sharing his thoughts and challenges on wireless industry news, opinions and gossip. Dean continues to provide an authoritative published and vocal presence within the wireless communications industry.
Dean holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) Psychology and a Doctorate in Telecommunications.
In this Book
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Making My Book Social
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Before We Begin
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About This Book
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It's a Small Wireless World
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What is a Personal Area Network?
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Disruptive Topologies Through Technology Convergence
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Introducing the Lawnmower Man Effect
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Introducing Low Power and Wireless Sensor Technologies
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Enabling the Internet of Things
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Bluetooth Low Energy—The Smart Choice
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Control Your World with ZigBee
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Green, Smart, and Wireless—EnOcean
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The Power of Less—ANT
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Introducing the Classic Personal Area Networking Technologies
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Just Touch with NFC
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The 802.11 Generation and Wi-Fi
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Bluetooth Classic and High Speed—More than Cable Replacement
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One Standard, All Devices—WHDI
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Future and Emerging Technologies
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Summary and Conclusions
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Glossary
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References and Bibliography
