Bluetooth rules? Not yet

摘要

Named for a Danish king, the Bluetooth wireless communication standard has few conquests in the supply chain, hut its day may still come. Talk about the emperor with no clothes. Bluetooth, the much heralded new standard for short-range wireless data transmission named for a Danish king, has yet to make its mark with automatic data capture (ADC) devices in industrial applications. "I haven't seen a lot of Bluetooth coming up in the solutions I deploy," says Jim Geier, principal consultant at Wireless-Nets Consulting (937-767-8298, www.wireless-nets.com), who helps industry install wireless networks.