Rococo’s Jility allows developers create applications that reach out from the browser or from a widget and interact with Bluetooth devices in the real world. Jility APIs, based on the BONDI standards, open up some really interesting and useful application scenarios which allow web applications and portable Bluetooth devices to be more closely integrated. Web applications can now discover bluetooth devices and communicate with them to deliver solutions across a range of application sectors – for example:
- Any website could send and receive information direct to a user's phone from the browser. For example, a site could send a map, an address, a voucher or other details, direct to a user's phone, without having to have the interim step of saving that information to their desktop, or emailing it them, etc. Instead, the required information could be "zapped" directly from browser to phone, making it easier and faster to get information from browser to phone.
- In healthcare bluetooth-enabled sensors such as blood-pressure and heart-rate monitors can collect data and communicate in real-time via a widget running on a mobile-device to a healthcare monitoring service. These capabilities revolutionise homecare and independent living initiatives and are sure to gain significant traction in the massive healthcare market.
- In sport, bluetooth enabled GPS devices, heart monitors and wearables etc. can track an athletes position and condition in realtime and fed via a mobile widget to a cloud-based monitoring service. This information could be shared with coaching staff to improve performance or with friends on social platforms. Such systems could even be used so that geographically remote individuals could race against each other.
- In gaming widgets could be used to detect proximity to other people and could open up a new set of gaming features where players who happen to be physically close together can challenge or cooperate with each other.
The technology has been developed in accordance with the WAC (Wholesale Applications Consortium) initiative. This powerful Telco industry platform is aimed at making it easier for developers to create applications that can run on multiple mobile platforms. Some of the largest operators worldwide, like Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, Orange, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Vodafone are consortium members. Working alongside equipment manufacturers and the W3C; the consortium is creating a solution that uses existing standards, based on work from JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), OMTP BONDI and the GSMA OneAPI.
BONDI and JIL focus on standardising programmatic access to mobile device features such as the contacts repository, camera and Bluetooth. Rococo has implemented the reference API for the BONDI 1.5 Bluetooth profile and is working with the WAC consortium to finalize it’s widget-based implementation in time for WAC platform rollout in 2011.
For more information on the Rococo Jility implementation see http://bondi.omtp.org/1.5/pwd-1/bluetooth.htm
Go beyond the browser - Find out more about Jility
Part of Rococo's mission is to make it easy for software developers to add proximity functionality to their applications. For Mobile Java Developers, one of the issues is that most Bluetooth Stacks have proprietary APIs, are written in C or C++, and have very different interaction models (synchronous, asynchronous, message-passing).
Part of the solution is to use the Java / Bluetooth API standard (JSR82 ). Rococo has been involved in this standard since it's inception in 2000, and was a member of the Java Community Process Expert Group that defined the standard between 2000 and 2002.
Rococo was the first to offer JSR82-based development tools, and today Impronto is still the leading source of tools for adding proximity features to your Java application. Developers can use Rococo's Simulator and Development Kits to rapidly create Bluetooth apps in Java that will run on JSR82-compliant phones.
For device manufacturers who wish to embed Java/Bluetooth support in their products, Rococo provides the world's most tried and tested implementation of the JSR82 Standard, which has now shipped on over 180M mobile phones, including phones from Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, Sharp, INQ and others.
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Rococo continues to contribute to the JSR82 Standard, and regularly updates all products to ensure they stay compliant and pass the JSR82 TCK.
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