Product Description

This book is aimed at the Bluetooth community that is currently developing applications on top of the Bluetooth Core. Gratton details the usage scenarios for Bluetooth, known as Profiles, essentially defining the end-user applications and their interoperability requirements. The whole Bluetooth community strives to build applications based upon the new wireless technology that is Bluetooth: Bluetooth Profiles will show them how. Bluetooth is set to become a revolutionary communications technology that will affect the lives of us all in some shape or form. It will simplify the operation and installation of new and existing products and, despite numerous vendors providing a vast range of exciting products, its functionality will exist almost invisibly and seamlessly. This book does not aim to provide you with a history of Bluetooth nor does it explain why it was created; instead, it embodies the firm belief that it is already here.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1130434 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

From the Back Cover

Build reliable, interoperable Bluetooth products—right now!

• Practical guidance for building reliable, interoperable Bluetooth products
• Covers usage models, profile principles, user expectations and dependencies
• Details every foundation profile and key application, from cordless telephony to file transfer
• Introduces emerging profiles for personal area networking, imaging, printing and automotive applications
• Shows how to build your own new profiles

Bluetooth Profiles are the key to delivering interoperable products that work reliably, "right out of the box." Now, leading Bluetooth expert Dean Anthony Gratton brings the Bluetooth Profiles to life, showing you exactly how to use them to build winning user-centered products. Gratton takes you "under the hood" of every significant Bluetooth Profile, from Bluetooth's essential Foundation Profiles to powerful emerging profiles for personal area networking, automotive applications and imaging. Drawing on his extensive experience with Bluetooth development, Gratton also offers practical guidance for creating innovative new profiles of your own.

• Accessible, authoritative coverage of usage models, profile principles, user expectations and dependencies
• Presents practical introductions to GAP, SDAP, OBEX and SPP—the Foundation Profiles that underlie most of Bluetooth's application development
• Covers all core Bluetooth application profiles: cordless telephony, intercom, headset, dial-up networking, fax, LAN access, object push, file transfer and synchronisation
• Previews new profiles for imaging, printing, extended services discovery, hands-free and much more
• Contains a concise "macro-level" review of current Bluetooth protocol stacks and development kits
• Includes a detailed Bluetooth glossary and reference section

About the Author

DEAN ANTHONY GRATTON has witnessed the evolution of Bluetooth firsthand as a consultant for organizations such as TDK Systems Europe, Alcatel Microelectronics, Plantronics, and 3Com Europe, and as an active participant in the Bluetooth standards process. He edited the Bluetooth LAN Access Profile, served on the Personal Area Networking Working Group and contributed to the latest Specification of the Bluetooth System: Profiles v1.1. His work on defining new aspects of Bluetooth technology has recently been patented.

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Preface

There must be something in the Belgium air, for it seems to inspire many people to write. My own experience of authoring a book began with an idea I conceived whilst slowly sipping a cool Trappist beer in the Triangel restaurant at the end of the wonderful Cogels Osylei in Antwerp. I was considering the Bluetooth Profiles specification and its effective implementation into the "grand scheme of things," when my eyes where drawn to Anneke, the landlady, as she placed several glasses of beer before expectant customers. Their contented reactions made me realise that effective profile implementation begins first and foremost with the customer or end-user. Building an understanding of user expectations from a union of observation and existing knowledge is the key to understanding the true value of profile development, both now and in the future.

My early career as a software engineer, developing software for the amusement industry, taught me the importance of creating the right user experience. For the user, the Bluetooth experience should be a wonderful and almost seamless transition from having cables to having no cables. For all intents and purposes, the user should be unaware that a Bluetooth-enabled application sits beneath the wireless communication tools at their disposal.

I look upon the profile specification as being the veins within a leaf. They provide support and structure, but without their surrounding matter they have no purpose and no reason to exist. A comprehensive understanding of the user experience is fundamental to the development of future Bluetooth Profiles and this philosophy forms the foundation for the entire book. In essence, I hope to provide all developers and researchers with the necessary understanding to find their own answers to the questions raised by the prospect of a world without wires.

I have worked within the Bluetooth industry for a number of years and have witnessed first hand the various implementations that are currently available from numerous vendors. The English novelist Aldous Huxley once said "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." This quote has particular meaning for the book. The old ways are slowly slipping away and, as voyagers and explorers in this exciting new arena, we have an opportunity to cross new boundaries and shape the technological world of the future. Bluetooth Profiles will enable you to gain an holistic understanding of the technology from both a developmental and consumer perspective; as such, it should give you the scope and insight to become a key contributor to the future of wireless communications.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, excellent, excellent!
As a senior developer I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone working with Bluetooth. I had been looking for a book specifically about the profiles and was not disappointed with my selection. The author considers every conceivable aspect of the profiles and discusses their various relationships in a fresh and challenging way. In my opinion, the profiles are too understated in other books and too little understood by those who develop it. Like myself, I am sure other readers of this book will greatly benefit from its content.

Excellent source for the right person
This is an excellent source for the right person who is looking for it. If you are looking to find the nuts and bolts of Bluetooth profiles and what is under the wraps then you will find this book fascinating to read and do what ever you do. All you care is writing applications on bluetooth and looking for a book that can guide you, then this is probably not yours.

Not very articulate - not recommended
I was hoping this book was going to introduce and explain profiles in a more articulate and understanding way. It jumps right away and almost randomly into various aspects of bluetooth - in a very mixed up way. It does cover various details of each profile, but in such a tabular and stale way that it's very hard to continue reading. I enjoy reading the spec itself more than this book, which is a bad sign I'd say. This book is way too formulaic and is filled with too many tables/figures that don't add anything to the understanding of the subject - they appear to be fillers for the most part - eg it's not necessary to specify the bit breakdowns of almost every field of every message here? Too much raw data, not enough in depth understanding revealed.

One very good BT book I found was Morrow's Bluetooth Operation and Use - only one chapter on profiles but it's a much easier and more understanding read.