Easy-to-interface modules to spread Bluetooth

A new range of easy-to-apply OEM modules is set to expand the application scope for Bluetooth technology.

Bluetooth wireless technology was rightly unveiled as the biggest enabling technology since the Internet.

Its aim is simple; to eliminate the restrictions imposed by wires.

Bluetooth technology allows use of products and services with previously impossible levels of freedom and flexibility.

Until now, this technology was the preserve of the telecommunications giants, and telecommunications applications but this is set to change with the latest range of Bluewave products from Wireless Futures.

By adopting Bluewave, product manufacturers in virtually any industry sector can offer applications with overwhelming diversity: heart monitors that release the patient from wires; remote units to read electricity meters down an entire street without the operative leaving the van; or an automotive system that allow a mechanic to diagnose an engine fault without even lifting the bonnet.

The barrier to the widespread deployment of Bluetooth has been the prohibitive cost of the R and D, availability of highly skilled engineering resource and technical constraints such as processing power.

Bluewave overcomes all these barriers with an OEM-ready, easily integrated, low-cost solution.

"The ingenious concept of Bluewave is to encapsulate all the technical complexity within the module, whilst providing a simple RS232 interface to the host.

This allows fully compliant, proven Bluetooth solutions to be developed in minutes with no changes to existing hardware or software", explained Ian Daintith, cofounder of Wireless Futures.

"The Bluewave range is offered either as a per-unit component, royalty license or a design buyout, which provides a solid business case for all scales of volume", continued Daintith.

With Microsoft's recent declaration to support Bluetooth in the latest operating systems and growing integrated Bluetooth support within the latest PDAs and PC motherboards, the prevalence of the technology is predicted to explode.

This will place a heavy demand on product manufacturers to incorporate Bluetooth where previously serial or USB cables have been deployed.

Wireless Futures is certain that the Bluewave range is the ideal solution for this market need technically, commercially and strategically.

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