A piconet is a network of computing devices using bluetooth technology protocols to allow one master device to interconnect with up to seven slave devices.
Also the name of an unrelated networking technology employed by BBC Micro machines.
Piconet is an attempt to understand the implications of the provision of wireless connectivity at the level described here.
Piconet provides a broad range of mobile and embedded computing objects with the ability to exploit an awareness of, and connectivity to, their environment.
Piconet is presently limited to 40 kb/s by the size and cost of the available radio transceivers, but if we can move to higher bit rates, we must seriously consider a secondary radio or the use of timing protocols for rendezvous purposes.
A Bluetooth PAN is also called a piconet, and is composed of up to 8 active devices in a master-slave relationship (up to 255 devices can be connected in "parked" mode).
The first Bluetooth device in the piconet is the master, and all other devices are slaves that communicate with the master.
A piconet typically has a range of 10 meters, although ranges of up to 100 meters can be reached under ideal circumstances.
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