 Bluetooth® helmet headsets have been available now for a year or more and these first generation units have really broken new ground for those wanting to use cordless helmet headsets.
Almost without exception, they have been using one or more of the available standard Bluetooth headset software configurations of HSP (Headset Profile), HFP (Hands Free Profile), A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile ((Streaming Stereo)) and AVRCP (Audio Video Remote Control Profile).
These profiles allowed most of these headsets to link to various Bluetooth enabled audio devices, cell phones, GPS/Nav units, I-pods etc. Many of them could also link from one helmet to another, with various functional/wired compromises, depending upon the exact brand or Bluetooth configurations utilized.
The one thing that NONE of these Bluetooth headsets could do, including the first generation J&M® Bluetooth headsets, was to properly link to a system like you would use on a Honda® Gold Wing or Harley® Ultra Classic.
As an example, when using Bluetooth software profile A2DP (2-channel stereo profile) there are no provisions for the signal from the helmet mounted microphone to pass down to the linked device (dongle) simultaneously with the stereo signal from the dongle being transmitted back up to the helmet speakers.
That meant that you could not use the driver/passenger intercom system already built into the audio system on the bike, and you could not talk on the CB radio when you pressed the handlebar mounted TX switch.
J&M has now changed all of that with the release of our own custom Bluetooth software profile, JMAHP (J&M Motorcycle Audio Headset Profile) which allows for simultaneous transmission of both the 2-channel stereo signals and mike signal, back and forth between the headset and dongle.
This new software profile will be included, along with the other standard Bluetooth profiles, in the updated 2008 versions of all J&M Bluetooth helmet headsets, using the enhanced-data-rate (EDR) BlueCoreV® module.
This will give these second generation J&M Bluetooth headsets the ability to still link with most all Bluetooth enabled stand alone devices available in the marketplace today, but in addition, be able to link with the new J&M custom dongles for systems like the Honda Gold Wing, Harley Ultra, JMCB-2003 and many other applications to be released.
Coming in 2008
The New Integrated Bluetooth Helmet Headsets
We are also proud to release in late spring 2008, the first of our new Integrated Bluetooth helmet headsets, made specifically for the Nolan N-102 N-Com helmet, offering great stereo sound along with total integration for a clean looking installation into this industry leading flip-up style of helmet.
This is going to be another exciting year at J&M ! ,,,,
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