Proposal for a seamless connection method for remotely located Bluetooth devices

In view of the recent development of short-range wireless communication technologies, popularization of home automation is being anticipated. Hereafter, it is expected that the desire of manipulating short-range wireless communication devices located at home from the outdoors will increase. However, there exists a constraint of the reachable range of communication for such devices, and it is not possible to directly manipulate them from a remote location from home. In this paper, we propose a method to get connection with a remotely located Bluetooth device, by forwarding command and other messages exchanged between the hardware and software of Bluetooth device via the Internet. Based on this method, it is possible for a user to have seamless connection, by using ordinary Bluetooth applications, without the necessity of being conscious of the location of Bluetooth devices.