Short range radio systems make it possible to implement relatively low cost location-aware network and service solutions. Guidance system is an application which gains added value from that kind of a network. As mobile terminals with Bluetooth properties emerge an intelligently working guidance system becomes available. Our approach on a wireless guidance system is based on Bluetooth technology...

Bluetooth is a communications standard targeting shortrange wireless communications with data rates of 1Mb/s at 10m distance. To encourage Canadian universities to pursue this commercially promising standard the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation is providing the intellectual property for a Bluetooth SOC Reference Platform. This platform does not currently include an RF transceiver core. Thi...

With the development of modern technology and Android Smartphone, Smart Living is gradually changing people’s life. Bluetooth technology, which aims to exchange data wirelessly in a short distance using short-wavelength radio transmissions, is providing a necessary technology to create convenience, intelligence and controllability. In this paper, a new Smart Living system called home lighting c...

Bluetooth is an emerging, short range, indoor wireless network technology, based on FH-CDMA/TDD, which allows a collection of devices to form small overlapping networks, called piconets, in an ad hoc fashion. It is likely that the Bluetooth specification may be adopted in the IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Network standard. In this paper, we present an analysis of the Bluetooth physical lay...

Personal robots will contribute mobile manipulation capabilities to our future smart homes. In this paper, we propose a low-cost object localization system that uses static devices with Bluetooth capabilities, which are distributed in an environment, to detect and localize active Bluetooth beacons and mobile devices. This system can be used by a robot to coarsely localize objects in retrieval t...

Multiple Bluetooth piconets operating in the globally available 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band are likely to co-exist in a physical environment, supporting applications such as wireless earphones, keyboards etc. An independently operating Bluetooth piconet will inevitably encounter the interference from collocated piconets, which results in both individual piconet and over...

Over the past several years, mobile/wireless communications have evolved and proliferated a variety of technologies. Among those technologies, we focus on UMTS and Bluetooth because of their prominent and complementary features. While UMTS provides “universal connectivity,” Bluetooth will be the most promising candidate technology to provide “ubiquitous connectivity.” In this paper, we advocate...

We explore the use of Bluetooth friendly names within the mobile space. Each Bluetooth-enabled device possesses a short string known as a ‘friendly name’ used to help identify a device to human users. In our analysis, we collected friendly names in use on 9,854 Bluetooth-enabled devices over a 7-month period. These names were then classified and the results analysed. We discovered that a broad ...

The aim of this research is to identify whether there is a need for greater public awareness of security related to Bluetooth. This study surveyed public opinion in different aspects of Bluetooth's security. An analysis of the data found that females were generally more vigilant than males when using Bluetooth and that those who have some knowledge in Bluetooth security are generally more secur...

In this paper we inspect the possibilities of using Bluetooth for building Ad-Hoc networks suitable for transmitting audio and esp. voice data using synchronous SCO links. We analyze the features or problems that Bluetooth offers for transmitting audio data in a multihop network. As the existing MANET routing protocols that emerged out of the work of the IETF MANET WG (like AODV, DSR etc.) can ...