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Wireless protocol for accelerometer data

I am creating an application in which a mobile phone with an accelerometer is used to control an application on a computer in a similar way, using a mouse. So I need to send motion from phone to computer over some wireless protocol. I am thinking about using bluetooth, but I'm not sure what to expect a deferral. Another possibility is using 802.11g. What do you think? What latency could I expect given that I was not hit by the bandwidth limitation?

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I worked with a group at Motorola that linked an external accelerometer package to a mobile phone using Bluetooth. This work supported a mobile game development class at the USC GamePipe Laboratory, and the speed was sufficient to manage student-developed mobile games. You need to make sure that the correct profile is enabled on your phone's Bluetooth to enable data transfer.



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Another advantage of Bluetooth over 802.11g is that using Bluetooth with frequency hopping will make it less vulnerable to interference from all other 802.11 devices nearby that are on the same frequency.



I would not expect the amount of data sent by the accelerometer to cause Bluetooth problems.

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