Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

Most of us use a Personal Area Network (PAN) in our daily routines in front of our desktop and notebook PCs. PANs are technically defined as any network used to communicate with other slave devices ...

According to ICT Results in 'The Network of Everything,' wireless experts estimate that our personal networks will include about a thousand devices in 2017, including dozens of sensors checking our ...

The wireless market has seemingly been dominated by cellular and wireless-local-area networks (WLANs). Though other technologies have been holding their own or even flourishing, they don't garner the ...