Serial data can also be sent through Bluetooth by connecting a HC-05 Bluetooth module that supports the Serial Port Profile (SPP) to the GPIO serial RX/TX pins. This allows the serial connection to become wireless, which allows Android tablets or smartphones to be used to control things and to read data from Raspberry Pi:
Controlling Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth
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