Difference between revisions of "Infrared Data Association"

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The Infrared Data Association (IrDA) is an industry driven interest group that was founded in 1993 by around 50 companies.

IrDA provides specifications for a complete set of protocols for wireless infrared communications and the name "IrDA" also refers to that set of protocols.

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:

• Physically secure data transfer
• Line-of-Sight (LOS)
• Very low bit error rate (BER), making it very efficient

External Links

• Infrared Data Association @ Wikipedia