The Bluetooth Industry Report

Bluetooth Developer Academy Bluetooth Training + Continuous Education + Private CommunityThis month: Exclusive CES 2020 & Bluetooth LE Audio coverageLearn More Bluetooth LE Audio: multistreaming, new codec (but no lossless)Active noise-cancelling (ANC) headphones have been around for a number of years but in 2019, the technology made the leap to True Wireless Earphones (TWE). First came…

Bluetooth Developer Academy Bluetooth Training + Continuous Education + Private CommunityThis month: Exclusive CES 2020 coverage & Bluetooth announcementsLearn More STMicroelectronics Unleashes Full Power of Bluetooth® Mesh to Enable Scalable Wireless Sensor NetworksWith the release of Bluetooth® mesh software stacks for the BlueNRG family of Bluetooth Low Energy chips and modules, STMicroelectronics will demonstrate the many…

Atmosic gets boost toward first product launchAtmosic Technologies has completed its Series B funding, with USD 28.5 million raised, in anticipation of its upcoming inaugural product launch. The latest injection of funding will be put toward the launch of Atmosic’s M2 and M3 series Bluetooth 5 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for commercial products in early 2020,…

Nordic Semiconductor samples nRF21540 RF Front End Module – a ‘plug and play’ range extender for its short-range wireless portfolioThe nRF21540 RF Front End Module is a range extender optimized to boost the link budget of Nordic’s nRF52 and nRF53 Series advanced multiprotocol wireless SoCs. When combined with an nRF52 Series SoC, the nRF21540 RF…

BtleJack: a new Bluetooth Low Energy swiss-army knifeBtlejack provides everything you need to sniff, jam and hijack Bluetooth Low Energy devices. It relies on one or more BBC Micro:Bit. devices running a dedicated firmware. You may also want to use an Adafruit’s Bluefruit LE sniffer or a nRF51822 Eval Kit, as we added support for these devices. Current version…

Bluetooth Low Energy Serial: A Valid Design Strategy?At some point in developing a connected product for BLE, you may have wondered, “Where is the serial profile?” Maybe you assumed that you missed it while scrolling through the long lists of profiles on the Bluetooth SIG’s website. Or, maybe you never looked, preferring the faster method of…

WISeKey, ON Semiconductor and Tatwah announce the release of the world’s first Secure IoT Beacon deviceWISeKey, a Swiss based cyber security company, ON Semiconductor (ON), a leading supplier of energy efficient semiconductor-based solutions, and Tatwah, a market leader in designing and manufacturing secure RFID tags and Bluetooth Low Energy beacons with a strong experience in…