Wibree the new open connectivity technology for Nokia
Posted on 23. Oct, 2006 by Sankaranand in General, Technology
Wibree wirelessly connects mobile devices and pc’s to small size devices, such as watches, wireless, keyboards, toys and sports sensors.
What is Wibree ?
Wibree is a radio technology that operates within a short range (10 meters / 30 feet) based around low-cost transceiver microchips in each device. This technology is designed for ultra low power consumption (button cell battery) with power consumption as its key design requirement.
Relationship of Wibree an Bluetooth:
The main relationship of Wibree to Bluetooth is that it can be interoperabile with Bluetooth by Dual-mode implementation which will greatly extend the functionality of Bluetooth. Although Wibree can be used as an alternative to Bluetooth but Wibree’s power consumption will reduce as data transfer increases.
Technical Specifications:
Wibree technology complements close range communication with Bluetooth like performance within 0-10 m range and data rate of 1 Mbps. It is optimized for extremly low power, small size and low cost. Wibree enables or extends Bluetooth’s capability to connect new range of small devices.
Recently Nokia has introduced Wibree has their open Industry local connectivity initiative.
The technology will be made broadly available to the industry through an open and preferably existing forum enabling wide adoption of the technology.
from the Wibree Press Room.
Thilak
Oct 24th, 2006
Hey Sankar, I think my mail didn’t reach you… can we talk over IM ?
I’m waiting for you at Google Talk as thilak123 [@] gmail.com
What is Wibree?
Jun 13th, 2007
So, how will this help lower the cost of a cellphone and make it more accessable? Or is that _not_ the goal of the cellphone companies? Do they just want to add features that we don’t need to get more money out of us?
Sankar Anand
Jun 13th, 2007
That is not the main goal actually ! The main goal is of power consumption or battery consumption from our phone. cell companies thought that its bad to consume more power just for a connectivity medium and so they developed this new technology which seems to be a good alternative for bluetooth in all aspects..