10 posts tagged Wibree

Wibree vs. Bluetooth During October 2006, several tech companies, mainly Nokia, have announced that they will be launching new wireless networking technology called Wibree. However, Wibree will not be related to current Wi-Fi technologies, due to the fact that it will not have the range and bandwidth that Wi-Fi has.

Nokia developed and licensed a technology called a few years ago, and intended it to be an alternative for the current generation of Bluetooth technology. Wibree requires only a tenth of the energy consumed by its counterparts, and was developed for short distance communication between two devices, like say a Bluetooth headset and a mobile phone.

Wireless connectivity is the name of the game in the mobile industry, and Wibree, the next-generation Bluetooth standard, is making a splash with its new name. Wibree will now be known as ULP (Ultra Low Power) Bluetooth. ULP allows for 10 times lower power consumption during regular Bluetooth connection and a 50-fold decrease in power-draw during Bluetooth data transfers.

Wibree, now known as Ultra Low Power Bluetooth saw its first working demo today. CSR, the chip manufacturer successfully demonstrated data transfer between 2 dual mode bluetooth chips. The venue was a medical conference in Luxembourg. The chips will be commercially available from this year itself.

CSR demonstrated Ultra Low Power Bluetooth (formerly WiBree) data transfers recently, and showed that the technology can connect and send data up to 50 times faster and consume one-tenth the power of current Bluetooth technology. ULP Bluetooth is complimentary …

CSR shows off dual-mode ULP Bluetooth radio Posted by admin at April 14, 2008 We haven’t heard much about Wibree lately, but the next-gen Bluetooth standard looks to be humming along nicely, with a name change to ULP (Ultra Low Power Bluetooth) and now a dual-mode chip from CSR that supports Bluetooth 2.1 and ULP on the same silicon.

CSR shows off dual-mode ULP Bluetooth radio by Paul Miller, posted Apr 14th 2008 at 8:50AM We haven't heard much about Wibree lately, but the next-gen Bluetooth standard looks to be humming along nicely, with a name change to ULP (Ultra Low Power Bluetooth) and now a dual-mode chip from CSR that supports Bluetooth 2.1 and ULP on the same silicon.

CSR shows off dual-mode ULP Bluetooth radio by Paul Miller, posted Apr 14th 2008 at 8:50AM We haven't heard much about Wibree lately, but the next-gen Bluetooth standard looks to be humming along nicely, with a name change to ULP (Ultra Low Power Bluetooth) and now a dual-mode chip from CSR that supports Bluetooth 2.1 and ULP on the same silicon.

ZigBee, the low-power radio networking technology that can support thousands of nodes in dynamic star and mesh networks, is the latest topic to get the update-treatment in the Electronics Weekly Trends & Technology section.

Wibree is  a radio technology much like the Bluetooth which is only shorter in range and consumes less power unlike the bluetooth technology.Wibree is meant for smaller devices such as watches, wireless keyboards, etc which are connected to host devices such as mobile phones, computers etc.