BlackBerry Supports Bluetooth Smart Ready to Drive M2M App Development

BlackBerry has announced native support in BlackBerry 10 for Bluetooth Smart Ready, to help provide seamless connectivity between Bluetooth Smart devices. Tightly integrated into the BlackBerry 10 platform, developers can now easily incorporate Bluetooth Smart functionality into their BlackBerry 10 applications.

BlackBerry 10 applications can be written to leverage the wide range of Bluetooth Smart devices currently on the market. BlackBerry provides a broad range of support for various Bluetooth profiles in BlackBerry 10, with a secure set of APIs in the Native Development Kit. BlackBerry 10 implements AES-CCM cryptography and privacy features to ensure a customer’s data is kept safe and secure while their smartphone is polling or connected to a Bluetooth Smart device.