“Demand for Bluetooth low energy continues to grow as the technology is integrated into the increasing number of consumer electronics devices,” said Craig Ochikubo, general manager of Broadcom’s wireless personal area networking business.
Significantly the test demonstrated “the interoperability between existing Bluetooth low energy chips and new Bluetooth v4.0 devices”, said the firms.
The fob, which was based on a Bluetooth low energy chip, the Nordic µBlue nRF8001, is designed to prevent a device such as a laptop being accessed in the owner’s absence.
After ‘pairing’ with the chip in the mobile device, the user carries the fob on their person.
If the distance between the user and the mobile device exceeds a pre-set threshold, the pairing is broken and the mobile device automatically locks.
The nRF8001 Bluetooth low energy device is expected to be in production from early third quarter of this year. “The proximity fob application demonstrates how Bluetooth low energy can be incorporated into compact, coin-cell powered devices to extend the Bluetooth ‘ecosystem’,” said Svenn-Tore Larsen, Nordic’s CEO.
Broadcom said it will incorporate Bluetooth v4.0 into all of its combo chips in future.
“This will help drive new innovative implementations into new areas including health, fitness, and home entertainment, among others,” said Ochikubo.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) adopted the Bluetooth v4.0 specification in June 2010.
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