Auracast™ – changing the wireless audio experience
Auracast™ – changing the wireless audio experience
The latest Bluetooth Low Energy audio standards include a new broadcast feature which could effect the most important change in consumer audio since stereo was introduced back in the late 1950s. Named Auracast™, the new broadcast feature allows Bluetooth audio and voice transmissions to be shared with multiple people. It allows low cost infrastructure use, bringing public audio information to everyone, in a similar way that telecoil has benefitted hearing aid users. Not only will that help make our world quieter, with more silent TVs, it will simplify audio installations, drive new audio applications and open up many new audio management services. Users will find a new flexibility, where music once more becomes something that is shared, bringing the original social aspect back to listening.
This seminar looks at the history of consumer audio development, explains the key features and use cases of Auracast™ and hears from some of the companies exploring the new business opportunities for shared audio.
This in-person event is kindly hosted by Anglia Ruskin University at their Cambridge Campus and will provide delegates with ample opportunities to network with fellow attendees to explore the themes of this event.
Speakers include:
- William Campbell - Deputy Head of School for Music and Music Technology, Anglia Ruskin University
- Nick Hunn - CTO, WiFore Consulting
- Alastair Moore - Technology Lead, RNID
- Julian Pieters - Managing Director, Ampetronic
- Jan Slodičák - Wireless Software Engineer, RFcreations
- James Taylor - Product and Strategy Leader for Connected Products, Frontier Smart Technology
Sponsor
Connected Devices SIG Champions
Paul Green
Paul originated Arkessa in 2006 - the business that provides remote internet services to multitudes of machines. He is currently creating the services Arkessa will offer in five year's time. His professional life combined engineering and science has taken him through a variety of roles, including design and production engineering, business planning, marketing and corporate sales, mainly in the telecommunications sector. Interestingly, the first product he introduced to manufacture is now is in the Science Museum in London. A passionate and committed Christian, Paul is as excited about materials science and quantum physics as he is interested in railways, walking, skiing and the natural world.
Nick Hunn
For the past thirty years Nick has been closely involved with short range wireless and communications, designing technology that helps to bring mobility to products, particularly in the areas of telematics, M2M, IoT, wearables, smart energy and mobile health. He is closely involved with the Bluetooth SIG, the Continua Alliance and other medical and wireless standards bodies. He is the author of 'The Essentials of Short Range Wireless' - a book attempting to explain the application of wireless technology to product developers.
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickhunn/
Tim Whittaker
Cambridge Consultants was started in 1960 to pioneer the delivery of independent design and development services in electronic, mechanical and product engineering: we are one of the founder companies of the high-technology Cambridge Phenomenon. Our history of world-class services is augmented by our development of intellectual property in areas including telecommunications, software, silicon, medical devices, machine learning, and by more than 20 successful spin-out ventures. Today Cambridge Consultants employs over 900 world-class engineers, scientists, project managers and technicians with offices in Cambridge UK, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Singapore and Tokyo; we provide the full range of services for excellent product design to a worldwide client base in the wireless, consumer, industrial, energy and medical markets. Tim Whittaker is a System Architect in the Wireless business unit, where he has taken the technical lead in projects using radio standards like Bluetooth, ZigBee, DECT, and in the creation of specialist communications schemes for new applications, or to use new spectrum allocations.
