Bluetooth product integration and custom design services for commercial and industrial applications - Bluetooth custom product and design services

BlueRadios, Inc.
7173 S. Havana Street, Suite 600
Englewood, CO 80112
USA

Phone: 303-957-1003
efax: 303.845.7134

sales@BlueRadios.com

Free Bluetooth Resources
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FCC Glossary of Terms

Bluetooth Market Report

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Effective Wireless Comm.

Global Certification Requirements

Bluetooth Devices

FCC Module Approval

- Where Wireless Technology Turns Into Solutions . . .

BlueRadios provides world class Bluetooth® product integration and custom design services for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications. We offer off-the-shelf or customer-specified design services, including embedded hardware, and software, PC and server software. Our skilled and experienced staff and well-proven tools and methods enable us to supply complete turnkey wireless solutions from the sensor to the boardroom. We also take on minor tasks to supplement the customer's current in-house capabilities. Eliminate your cables and wires with BlueRadios wireless product solutions.

Hardware Design Services:

Software Design Services:

Schematic and PCB design and layout

Bluetooth wireless communications technology

Electronic circuit design for all types of devices and products - microcontrollers, FPGA, CPLD, SDIO FLASH, and SD Cards

Software design for embedded 8,16 & 32 bit microprocessors (RTOS) as well as for PC's and Severs.

Digital and RF analysis, test equipment, development tools, supplies, and components

Ethernet/LAN, WLAN, USB, UART, SPI, SD, SDIO, RS-232, RS-485, MODBUS, I2C, SCADA, DAS, IR, PLC, SDIO, SD

ISM 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz RF, FHSS, DSSS and custom antenna design

Wireless data transfer via GSM/GPRS, CDPD, RIM, TDMA or ISDN modems

Prototyping facility - SMT soldering, Low Temp SMD removal, enclosure fabrication, assembly, test and evaluation. 3D CAD.

Java, Javascripts, XML, UML, HTML, PHP, PERL, MFC, Visual C++, Visual Basic, ActiveX Controls, C/C++, Basic, Plm86, Pascal, FORTRAN, and Assembly.

Observe international standards, requirements, best commercial practices, and procedures.

VHDL, Verilog, CORBA, ORACLE, J2EE, Windows, Windows CE, Palm OS, Linux

Offshore contract manufacturing & assembly

TCP/IP, PPP, UDP, HTTP, HTML, FTP, etc.

Competitive as to cost/price, performance, quality, reliability and produceablity.

HCI, BCSP, RFCOM, L2CAP, HCI, GAP, SDAP, SPP, BNEP, PAN, DUN, LAP, SYNC

Web and data hosting services for data mining, alerting, and posting using ORACLE 9iAS.
This coupled with the latest graphic software tools for FLASH and HTML web page creations.

BlueRadios has special knowledge in the development of mobile battery-operated and Bluetooth®-enabled devices, accessing mobile phones, Palm Pilots, iPAQ, notebook, PCs and wireless network access points via Bluetooth™ all communicating on the Internet to web application and database servers.

Bluetooth® Network Topology

Each Bluetooth device has a 48-bit unique address (281 trillion)

Bluetooth devices have two operation modes:

-	Master or Slave
-	Master determines which of the 79 available radio channels will be used in what sequence (the frequency hopping sequence - 1600hops/sec)
-	Slaves synchronize themselves to Master's hopping sequence and uses its clock and address

Data Rate Comparisons

ZigBee

56 Kbits/s

ISDN

64 Kbit/s

GSM

9.6 Kbit/s

GPRS

171 Kbit/s

EDGE

553.6 Kbit/s

UTRA

1920 Kbit/s

IrDA

115.2 Kbit/s

HomeRF

1.6 Mbit/s

IEEE 802.11b

11 Mbit/s

UWB

250 Mbit/s

Bluetooth

2 Mbit/s

Related Standards

HomeRF, HyperLAN2 and IEEE 802.11b
  - Higher bandwidth (11 Mbps)
  - More expensive
  - Require more power
  - No voice support

IrDA Infrared Data Association
  - Requires line-of-sight
  - Only point-to-point connection,
  - Devices need to be 1 meter or less apart
  - IrDa 1.1 allows up to 4 Mbit/s data rates

Bluetooth quickly surpasses 802.11 for network usage and 10 times as many Bluetooth devices will be sold over Wi-Fi / 802.11 over the next two years.

Microcontrollers Network Usage*
RS-232	57.6%
Ethernet	39.3%
USB	20.0%
CAN	17.8%
Proprietary	15.8%
Bluetooth	8.6%
802.11	7.9%
Firewire/1394	5.7%
Other	20.4%
None	4.7%
*405 survey respondents (courtesy of VDC Corp. 2002)

RS-232 is a widely used standard for communications between industrial, medical and scientific apparatus. Despite growth in alternatives such as Ethernet and USB, RS-232 remains the only communications standard which can offer the widespread interoperability and cost effectiveness required by manufacturers of this equipment. However the need for a physical, wired connection between devices can be inconvenient. Therefore, BlueRadios Bluetooth RS-232 "wireless wire" is provided as a convenient solution.