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Infrared Data Association
The
Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
defines physical specifications and
communications protocol
standards
for the short
range
exchange of
data
over
infrared
light, for uses such as
personal area networks
(PANs).
IrDA is a very short-range example of
free-space optical communication
.
IrDA interfaces are used in
palmtop[?]
computers and
mobile phones
.
IrDA protocols include
IrLAP[?]
,
IrLMP[?]
,
IrIAS[?]
,
IrIAP[?]
,
IrLPT[?]
,
IrCOMM[?]
,
IrOBEX
, and
IrLAN[?]
. IrDA has now produced another standard,
IrFM[?]
, for
Infrared financial messaging[?]
also known as "Point & Pay".
See also
Bluetooth
.
External links
http://www.irda.org/
Linux Infrared HOWTO document
(
http://mobilix.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO
).
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
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