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Dart in Consumer Electronics

“Dart makes interoperability easy for device manufacturers and brainless for their consumers.”

Key Benefits to CE Manufacturers:

  • Clearly differentiate your products as ‘easiest to use’

  • Offer ‘Better Together’ product lines

  • Network effects – your products will benefit from other Dart-enabled devices in the field

  • A seamless Dart content and app ecosystem, but across more devices

  • Lower development, deployment and support costs



Consumer Electronics (CE) vendors put a lot of time into developing cost-effective yet highly functional devices. And these devices, as standalone products, deliver proven value to the consumer. But these devices could be even more valuable if they functioned as an integrated link in the consumer’s “Entourage” of devices. Yet CE manufacturers know that it is an almost insurmountable challenge to secure partnerships, agree on standards, and built interoperability for multiple other devices into their standalone products. That’s where Dart can help.

DARTDevices tackles the complexity of interoperability for you. Our “DartBoard” is a thin piece of code that provides the platform for interoperability with other devices. Because the interoperability platform is abstracted from your OS, with just a small porting effort your devices can be fully prepared to interoperate with hundreds of other devices. Here are some examples:

  • A mobile phone manufacturer with the Dartboard on their phone can promise customers that their phone can print to printers connected to a Mac or a PC.

  • A media player can access and pull photos directly off of a digital camera.

  • A PDA can control music playing on a set-top box or Digital Media Adapter.

  • A multiplayer game can take place between your son’s Nintendo DS and your daughter’s phone.

  • A car’s GPS system can access and route to a destination from the address book from a PDA or smartphone, or pull an address from a calendar entry in the phone.

  • …there are many more combinations. It just depends on the functionality of the devices, and the Dart development community.

It’s easy for CE makers to get Dart on board. Just connect with us and we’ll work with you to set easy licensing terms, and provide our DartBoard Porting Kit. We can even help port the DartBoard to your devices.

If you want to learn more, or get into the patented technical details of how Dart technology works, contact us and we’ll be glad to speak with you.

 
There is an ever-increasing number of CE devices with smarter and smarter capabilities, yet those capabilities remain locked up in silos within each device. Dart technology is able to add value to all of these devices by liberating and exposing those siloed features.
 
 
Dart Technology is a fit for many device types: PCs, Phones, PDAs, cameras, printers, media players, file servers, set-top boxes, automobiles, GPS devices, home appliances, HVAC, digital media adapters, and more.