Reduce costs & short lead times
blueGO is designed to offer reduced risk, reduced NRE cost, reduced time to market – 80% of the Bluetooth application development effort is already done.
blueGO
Knowit Bluetooth application framework is a piece of software that holds the functionality that you need in a Bluetooth system for telematics, consumer or medical/health devices.
What does the framework support?
It supports sophisticated hands-free telephony in the car, including advanced phone book synchronization, audio streaming from a Bluetooth-enabled device. Along with interoperability testing services, Knowit can offer compatibility with all commonly used mobile phones and media players on the market.
blueGO offers a well defined API towards the customer’s application that abstracts the complexity of the Bluetooth technology and the low-level interaction and co-existence of different Bluetooth profiles. It encapsulates the interfaces to OS and hardware, and handles most of the lower level design considerations and difficulties. The application programmer and system designer does not need to be experts in all the aspects of Bluetooth.
Reduce maintenance & development efforts
blueGO drastically reduces the effort for Bluetooth application development and maintenance. A typical blueGO function call generates 10 or more underlying calls to the Bluetooth Profile API. This means that a large portion of the customer’s application code is eliminated and that many of the classical difficulties, and opportunities to make design mistakes, are removed. All in all, it leads to drastically reduced initial development cost as well as cost for maintenance and product evolution.
blueGO is continuously designed and tested for device interoperability, following the interoperability testing service that is also offered to customers. blueGO eliminates the problems and customer complaints that most product vendors are experiencing.
The design of blueGO makes it independent regarding customers' choice of RTOS, MCU, and BT chip. blueGO integration is available for different RTOSes including QNX, VxWorks, as well as for Linux (Open Embedded, Mobiln, Wind River Linux) and Android.
blueGO – how it works
blueGO is designed to offer reduced risk, reduced NRE cost, reduced time to market – 80% of the Bluetooth application development effort is already done.
blueGO was originally designed for telematics solutions in vehicles. It is installed in volume models as well as premium cars for several auto makers. Now it is used across different industry segments, including handsets and medical/health devices.
The software is independent of the customers' choice of RTOS, MCU, and BT chip, and blueGO ports are available for different RTOSes including QNX, VxWorks, xxx, as well as for Linux (Open Embedded, Mobiln, Wind River Linux) and Android.
The following advantages are offered by blueGO
- Reduced time to market – Application development (focusing on user experience) can start immediately using a well-defined API
- Reduced cost – Low initial investment compared to design, development, testing, trouble shooting, re-design, re-testing, etc of a complete application framework
- Reduced risk – Common mistakes are avoided and many years' experiences re-used
- Compatible – Continuous adaptations (maintenance releases) are included – to handle device interoperability
- Simple – All handling of the interface towards OpenSynergy Blue SDK is "internal" (not visible to application)
- Reliable – Based on market leading stack and profiles from OpenSynergy
- Used by other customers with other OSes, predominantly automotive
- Interoperability updates included – based on platform level IOP testing
- Future proof – We follow the standard's development by actively participating in Bluetooth® SIGs and continually producing new profiles as specifications are released. Feature road-map aligned with OpenSynergy.
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The next generation of infotainment systems for the car industry
One of the largest car manufacturers in partnership with Knowit has taken the next step to develop a personalized infotainment system (IVI). Among other things, Knowit has developed the new IVI system's Bluetooth solution through blueGO.