Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances. It was created in 1994 and named after the Viking king Harald Bluetooth who united Denmark and Norway. Bluetooth uses short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz to enable communication between devices like computers, phones and wireless accessories. It allows up to seven devices to connect in a personal area network (PAN) called a piconet, with one device acting as the master that the others connect to as slaves. Bluetooth provides wireless alternatives to wires and cables through frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technology which changes the transmission frequency many times per second, distributing the
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