A Bluetooth manager for Windows CE is billed as the most cost effective solution for OEMs wanting to add Bluetooth support to their Windows CE devices.
Adeneo has released a new version of its Bluetooth manager for Windows CE, billed as the most cost effective solution for OEMs wanting to add Bluetooth support to their Windows CE devices. With this new version, the product brings key innovations such as favourite devices handling, new profiles like DUN and FTP server and enhanced error management. Furthermore, its migration to Visual Studio 2005 gives OEMs a powerful and ergonomic development environment for adapting the source code.

Yannick Chamming’s, Adeneo’s Windows Embedded Team Leader and first ‘Embedded MVP’ in France commented: ‘For OEMs willing to implement Bluetooth feature in their device, a key point of concern is the high level application that will handle Bluetooth connections and profiles’.

‘This development requires a deep understanding of Windows CE Bluetooth stack and a real amount of work to implement a complete solution’.

‘With Adeneo’s Bluetooth manager, OEM can now benefit of a robust standard implementation, which provides most of the features available in Windows CE Bluetooth stack’.

Adeneo’s Windows CE Bluetooth manager implements all standard Bluetooth features such as devices and services enumeration, authentication, encryption, pairing, favourites, remote services connexion and local services implementation.

Furthermore it supports most of the profiles available in Windows CE (SPP, OPP, FTP, DUN etc).

Adeneo’s Windows CE Bluetooth Manager is completely implemented on the standard Windows CE Bluetooth stack.

Consequently, any Windows CE device which includes the Bluetooth stack can integrate the product.

Developed in native C, there is no need to have the Compact Framework on the device.

The Bluetooth manager is available for CE.NET 4.2 and CE 5.0.

The Windows CE Bluetooth manager comprises two distinct modules: an ‘engine’ layer, which implements all the features of the manager with an intuitive and an easy to use API; and a ‘graphical’ layer, which implements a typical ‘PDA like’ IDE for Bluetooth communications management.

With this two-layer model, it can be integrated easily on any type of devices: headless devices, custom GUI devices etc.

The use of Visual Studio 2005 as the development tool for the product provides a powerful development environment for OEMs wanting to adapt the product to their own specific needs.

Available both as a catalogue component of Platform Builder and as an ActiveSync installation package, Adeneo’s Windows CE Bluetooth can be integrated and used immediately without any integration costs, on both OEM custom devices or ‘of the shelf’ pre-installed products.

The licensing model allows users to purchase either the binary version of the product, or the source version.

The binary version is intended for customers willing to use the product without any modifications.

The source version is for OEMs who need to implement specific customisations.

Furthermore, the licensing model is royalty free, with only one-time licensing fees.

A free evaluation version can be obtained from Adeneo.