03.07.2009

Bluegiga's Bluetooth Health Device Profile Firmware Shipments Started

Software-based technology will extend location-based services to a wider array of consumer electronics devices

Bluegiga Technologies, available through GLYN High-Tech Distribution announces the availability of the Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) firmware. HDP has been integrated into Bluegiga’s existing iWRAP firmware platform to provide simple to use and reliable user interface for building various medical and health applications.

The beta firmware implements both HDP source and HDP sink modes, so it can be used to pilot and build end-to-end solutions. The firmware also includes the following benefits of Bluetooth Health Device Profile:

• Medical, Healthcare and Fitness Applicability
• Wireless Service Discovery
• Reliable Connection-oriented behavior
• Reliable Control Channel
• Support for Flexible Data Channel configurations
• Application-level Interoperability
• Efficient Reconnection mechanism
• High resolution clock synchronization
• Optimized for devices with low resources

The firmware, at the moment, does not implement any of the IEEE 11073-20601 layers, but Bluegiga offers a C reference implementation, which can be ported to various systems.
Customer can requested the firmware for evaluation from here: http://www.bluegiga.com/hdp_contact_form.

The beta version has not been Bluetooth qualified. Bluegiga also keeps the right to do any changes to the beta firmware if considered necessary.

For more information, please visit http://www.bluegiga.com/Healthcare or send us an email at sales@glyn.com.au