CHAPTER 7Wireless Communication

If a microcontroller needs to communicate wirelessly with other devices such as PCs, PDAs, other microcontrollers, or sensors, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, and, more recently, ZigBee are the four main technologies you can use to facilitate that communication. The most suitable of these technologies to use depends on your application, as all technologies were conceived for a certain purpose and are optimized for that.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to program networking applications. You can use this know-how to also work with wireless LAN communications. This chapter will show you how you can add wireless functionality to your .NET Micro Framework hardware with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) ...

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