Wireless Technology to reach new levels

By Staff
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Bangalore, June 23: The increased and swift penetration of mobile telephony and convergence of connectivity will soon see the handset becoming an all-powerful tool.

Convergent connectivity, an intelligent combination of multiple wireless technologies, would function with increased efficency, consume less power and cost less for the end user.

Talking about the scope of convergent connectivity, Mr Glenn Collinson, Executive Vice President and co-Founder of the UK-headquartered CSR, told newspersons here that wireless technologies such as wiFi, Ultra Wide Band (UWB), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Blue tooth would not only happily work alongside each other, but also function intelligently with each other.

He said integration of UWB into the Bluetooth specification was a perfect example of realising a world of convergent connectivity.

UWB, which had already become a reality in the United States, was likely to be incorporated by Europe next year and followed by Japan and rest of the countries.

While the US had gone for a low end of the bandwidth of three to five Gigahertz, Europe was likely to adopt the high end of six to eight Gigahertz, Mr Collinson said. Operating at a speed of 480 megabits per second, UWB was 1200 times faster than Bluetooth and could enable transfer of data at high speed from one device to another.

Convergence of various technologies would provide a system approach to wireless connectivity within which Bluetooth would be the nerve centre. Blue tooth would find the other wireless device, set up a link and then request the UWB radio to transfer data, with WiFi providing the connectivity to internet. Near Field Communication could potentially be embedded inside bluetooth technology and allow the device to make secure payment.

Mr Collinson said ''WiFi or Bluetooth perfectly match the connectivity requirement of many electronic devices. For example Bluetooth can transfer data at up to three megabits per second consuming very little power. But when you need to wirelessly transfer data at the same rate so that it can send over a USB cable attached to your PC then it needs much higher bandwidth. Because UWB is now being added to Bluetooth specificiation, it will be able to activate UWB as and when required.'' Blue Tooth, which had revolutionised the mobile telephony, would trigger further applications with the trend of wireless technologies to combine and present a more holistic solution to consumer needs, making the mobile phone user have a range of facilities including still or video camera, media players and even a software that could allow the device to make secured payment.

Mr Collinson said CSR would come out next year with a bluetooth chip integrated with UWB so that the cost of the handset could be brought down considerably as against over ten Dollar additionally per chip for the UWB connectivity.

Referring to the Indian operations, he said Indian operations was critical to CSR. It was the second biggest centre after the UK Centre and would in future take up research relating to Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). The new technology could enable the fixed telephone to automatically migrate to mobile system.

UNI

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