Started by Dr. Nils Rydbeck, Bluetooth was first conceptualized in 1989 and later built by Ericsson in 1994. The name Bluetooth was given after the tenth-century king of Denmark, Herald Bluetooth. The king united Danish tribes and introduced them to Christianity. This name was given to the technology by Jim Kardach in 1997. The name was adopted because the core concept of Bluetooth was to build a system that can connect a phone to the computer. The idea of Bluetooth was supported by Nokia and Intel who were thinking to migrate towards a universally interoperable wireless technology. Later, companies including Ericsson, Intel, Toshiba, Nokia and IBM came together in Lund, Sweden, in 1996 to agree on the foundation of ...
Bluetooth Low Energy
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