A Bluetooth-based proposal of instrument wireless interface

The paper deals with a Bluetooth-based interface for instrumentation, which has the aim of satisfying the need of wireless connection today arising in developing automatic measurement systems. After some notes about the Bluetooth communication protocol, the interface architecture is widely described for both hardware and software parts. Finally some experimental results allow first conclusions to be drawn about the interface performance.

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