Infrared Data Association

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The Infrared Data Association (IrDA) is an industry driven interest group which provides specifications for wireless infrared communications protocols.

Description

The name "IrDA" also refers to that set of protocols. See Free-space optical communication.

The main reason for using IrDA had been wireless data transfer over the “last one meter” using point and shoot principles.

Thus, it has been implemented in portable devices such as mobile phones, laptops, cameras, printers, medical devices.

Characteristics of this kind of wireless optical communication include:

History

The IrDA was founded in 1993 by around 50 companies.

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