This month sees the anniversary of Kolila Consulting’s
3rd year in business

Kolila Consulting was established in 2008 by CEO Simon Kingston and has seen a steady growth in development since then.

As anyone that has ever been involved in establishing a company will know, it’s a big challenge, particularly in the current economic climate. Simon’s aim has always been to maintain a steady and sustainable growth pattern for the company; to establish a team of industry experts with the flexibility to diversify as technology changes.

With additional staff joining the team and an expanding network of customers, our hope is that it will continue to grow and become recognised as a key supplier of software, hardware and consultancy services for the wireless technology industry… for many years to come.

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Hedy Lamarr is probably best known for her acting career between 1930 ‐ 1958, however she was also the co-inventor of an early technique for ‘spread spectrum communications’, a technique that has become key to many forms of wireless communication used today.

Hedy gained a lot of her technical knowledge during her first marriage to the arms manufacturer, Fritz Mandl. Fritz prevented Hedy from pursuing her acting career during their marriage and insisted instead that she attend business meetings with him. Hedy already had a talent for mathematics but it was during these meetings that she also learned about military technology.

Hedy later worked with her neighbour, the composer George Antheil, on their frequency-hopping spread-spectrum invention, know as the ‘secret communication system’. In August 1942 they were granted a US patent for their invention.

The early version of the frequency-hopping spread-spectrum was intended for military use, to make it difficult for enemies to block signals from radio-controlled missiles.

The idea was eventually taken up by the US military and used during a blockage of Cuba in 1962, about three years after the patent had expired, meaning that Hedy and George Antheil never received any money for their invention. However, their work has been widely recognised for it’s importance in forming the basis of much of the wireless and communications technology in use today.

For more information about Hedy Lamarr visit the following websites…

http://hedy-lamarr.org/invention.php
http://www.hedylamarr.org/
http://www.hedylamarr.com/

Hedy Lamarr – 9th November 1913 to 19th January 2000

Kolila are please to welcome Rob Palfreyman to the team, Rob joins the company as Business Development Consultant.

In this role, Rob will take the lead in developing a sales and marketing strategy that will lead the company towards new business development opportunities and future growth.

Rob has significant experience in the industry and has worked with many large bluechip organisations. We look forward to his contributions to the growth and continued success of Kolila.

Rob can be contacted on his direct line: +44 (0) 1223 750143 or by email: rob.palfreyman@kolilaconsulting.co.uk

This week sees the launch of Kolila’s new look website and company logo, which we think gives the company a fresh new look and feel.

The website is designed to make it easy for us to update with news, articles and case studies, and therefore easy for you to keep up to date with what’s going on at Kolila.

Our intention is for this website to be constantly evolving. We will be adding more information and case studies over the coming weeks. So please have a look around and let us know what you think by adding a comment below…

The website, including all the graphics and the logo were designed and constructed by designer Andrea Cristofaro. To get in touch with Andrea, or to see more examples of his work, please visit his website www.andreacristofaro.com

CSR plc have today announced the launch of their single-mode Bluetooth® Low Energy platform, CSR µEnergy™, and the first chips based on this, the CSR1000 and CSR1001. Here at Kolila Consulting, we are particularly excited about this announcement as we have contributed to the development of the CSR100x on-chip software!

The µEnergy™ platform is targeted at ultra low power devices that need low-bandwidth wireless connectivity. It will provide everything required to create a Bluetooth Low Energy product with RF, baseband, microcontroller, qualified Bluetooth v4.0 stack, and customer application running on a single chip.

“The CSR µEnergy platform unlocks the potential of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard and is a huge step forward in consumer wireless technology. Bluetooth Low Energy technology is an alternative to the fractured market of proprietary and poorly adopted standards and can be deployed in a variety of everyday devices, changing the way that we interact with our local environment,” commented Anthony Murray, Senior Vice President of the Audio and Consumer Business Unit at CSR.

He went on to say that “The ultra low power consumption of CSR’s µEnergy platform enables a new range of accessories to connect to the mobile phone, TV, PC, media player or tablet, enabling consumers to experience the power of these services in the home or products that they carry. Bluetooth Low Energy sensors in consumer products will enable their behaviour to be customised to the needs of the user, and tags will enable consumers to search and locate products and services around them.”

The CSR µEnergy platform, with its built-in processor, is designed for use in consumer products and requires no external processor to run customer applications. It includes four quadrature decoders to enable mouse and pointing devices, three analogue inputs for direct measurement of sensor, and digital serial connectors for external sensors and displays.

The chips each have direct antenna connections, can connect directly to a 3V coin cell or a pair of AAA batteries, and come with three pulse width modulation outputs for variable power control in applications such as lighting control or vibration motors. They can run in optimised sleep modes with currents as low as 600nA and chips can “wake” quickly in response to external input signals for applications such as remote controls. Both chips provide embedded support for keyboard scanning while “asleep” at less than 5µA.

CSR µEnergy is available in two package options. CSR1000 comes in a 32-pin 5x5x0.6mm QFN package. CSR1001, in a 56 pin 8x8x0.9mm QFN, provides extra pins for more complex products with a larger number of digital inputs, such as keyboards, remote control products or home information displays.

Both CSR1000 and CSR1001 can act as a master or slave using CSR’s recently qualified Bluetooth v4.0 host stack providing complete Generic Access Profile (GAP), L2CAP, Security Manager, Attribute Protocol (ATT) and Generic Attribute Profile (GATT). These devices enable customers to run their complete application on chip using the embedded 16-bit microprocessor.

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) formally adopts Bluetooth® Core Specification Version 4.0

6th July 2010

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the formal adoption of Bluetooth® Core Specification Version 4.0, with the hallmark feature, Bluetooth® Low Energy technology. This final step in the adoption process signals to Bluetooth SIG members that the Bluetooth SIG Qualification Program is now open for qualification of all Bluetooth product types to the Version 4.0 Specification.

“The finalization of Bluetooth Low Energy wireless technology within the Core Specification is a monumental achievement,” said Michael Foley, Ph.D., executive director, Bluetooth SIG. “Bluetooth wireless technology can now, with the hard work of our members and our world-class qualification program, really do it all.”

For more of what’s happening in the world of wireless visit…

http://www.wirelessindustrynews.org/

http://www.wirelessweek.com/

http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/