Bluetooth Piconets

Piconets are nothing but a type of networks. In our house let us say we have a Dvd player, a television, a set-top box, a personal computer or a laptop or a notebook and a cordless phone all of which has their own Bluetooth gismo embedded in them.

Bluetooth Piconets

Then you can use these Bluetooth piconets to set up a small home network using these devices. If you take the cordless phone into consideration there will be a Bluetooth sender / Receiver present in the handset and also in the base of the telephone. Both of their addresses will be kept within a obvious range and this is as designed by the manufacturer. The base is the one which gets initiated first and it sends Rf signals to the handset whose address range is known. Once the handset receives the message it responds back to the base.

If a gismo receives signal from another gismo whose address is not with in the range of address then it will naturally ignore that message as it is not in the part of the network. The behavior is the same for all the devices whether it is a television or a computer. Thus it allows you to set up a small network inside your home thus you can share contents such as images, audio or even video files.

You can even setup more than one Bluetooth piconet network in your house by having dissimilar address ranges for both the networks, thus both the networks exist physically together but logically separated.

Bluetooth Piconets