Distributed monitoring subsystems based on a Bluetooth implementation

The wireless concept goes beyond the reduction of cables and provides, in some standards, mechanisms for ad hoc network construction. Bluetooth as one of these wireless communication standards leads the way in the so-called personal area networks (PAN). Although, this wireless protocol was not intended for use in industrial communications, this paper presents a possible implementation on monitoring systems. The monitoring system addressed by this paper is based upon a distributed architecture whose application field is environment monitoring.