Brain Boxes Limited and CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) unveiled a working Bluetooth enabled vending machine on the Microsoft booth at the WinHEC Conference in Anaheim.
The vending machine, based around a Windows(R) PC allows consumers with a Bluetooth-enabled device such as a Microsoft Pocket PC(R) to order drinks using credits stored on the device, thus eliminating the need for coins.
A Brain Boxes(TM) Bluetooth PC Card, based on the BlueCore01(TM), CSR's single chip solution, is embedded in the vending machine. This provides a wireless connection to communicate with the user's PDA and an interface with the vending machine's existing systems. A Brain Boxes Bluetooth Compact Flash card in the user's Pocket PC based device turns it into a Bluetooth-enabled handheld computer. Both Bluetooth devices make use of Microsoft's Bluetooth software stack running on Windows 2000 and the Pocket PC.
Stephen Evans, marketing manager for Brain Boxes Limited said, "Microsoft's software stack and the CSR BlueCore chip complement our hardware expertise perfectly, and gave us the fastest, lowest-cost route to this `real-world' Bluetooth application."
"This is an innovative application of Bluetooth technology which illustrates the potential of wireless connections to a wide range of consumer applications," commented Glenn Collinson, co-founder and marketing director, CSR
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