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. I hope to see a lot of cell phones are wrist watches with wibree technology in the market. This would pave way to a whole new set...

Wibree has been renamed to ULP Bluetooth, ie Ultra Low Power Bluetooth. This change in name happened after the adoption of the technology by Bluetooth SIG. From now on this short range wireless communication protocol will be a part of the bluetooth specifications. The advantage of this adoption is the faster integration with existing bluetooth specs and products. We are expecting to see the first wibree products in an year. ...

Bluetooth uses a frequency hopping technology to avoid interference from other devices operating in the same frequency. Wibree does not use frequency hopping. Bluetooth uses fixed packet length. This increases power usage as unnecessary transmission occurs. Wibree has a variable packet length and transmits only when necessary. Bluetooth drains your cellphone battery as it needs quite a lot of power to remain active. Wibree aims...

Wibree is a PAN (Personal Area Networking) technology Zigbee is a mesh networking technology Wibree is more power efficient Zigbee has got more range Wibree’s data transfer rate is 1 Mbps Zigbees Data transfer rate is 250 Kbps Wibree has got a star topology Zigbee has got a mesh topology Wibree uses bluetooth radio and can co-exist with bluetooth Zigbee needs its own special radio and has got no relationship with bluetooth ...

Wibree technology has got special features to decrease the battery usage. The benchmark is to run a wibree device on coin sized battery for an year without any recharge. The technology is such that the device will go in to sleep mode when not in use to save battery. The usage matches a remote as it is not used continuously. The handset powers up only when a button is pressed. The receiving end (TV) is AC powered. So the receiver...

Nokia came up with the wibree idea and quite tactfully they merged with the bluetooth SIG. Their site even suggests some product ideas, like watch, health monitor and some really fancy cool gadgets. The initial impression was that wibree will eliminate bluetooth from the market. But with the merger of wibree with the bluetooth SIG, a smart business idea, or rather a conspiracy emerges. Wibree is not going to be a bluetooth killer,...

A cool new wibree product will be released with the launch of wibree devices. It will be a wibree enabled wrist watch, bluetooth and wibree enabled mobile phone and bluetooth hands free. With this product you will be come totally hands free. When a call comes the mobile will ring, but you dont have to take the mobile from your pocket to know who is calling. The callers name and number will be scrolling on your wrist watch. Your...