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Jaap Haartsen

Jacobus "Jaap" Cornelis Haartsen (born 13 February of 1963, The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch electrical engineer, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur, best known for being credited as the inventor of the short-range wireless communication technology for consumer electronics, known as Bluetooth. Haartsen’s invention of Bluetooth technology is now embedded in over two billion devices worldwide, shaping the modern landscape of wireless communications and connectivity.[1]

Education

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He obtained his Master of Science degree in 1986 in electrical engineering (with honors) at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. After a brief period at Siemens in The Hague and Philips in Eindhoven, he continued his studies and in 1990 obtained a PhD degree from the Delft University of Technology (also with honors) defending the thesis titled Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters.[2]

Career

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Since 1991, Haartsen worked for Ericsson, first in United States between 1991 and 1993 and later, between 1993 and 1997, in Sweden. While working for Ericsson Mobile Terminal Division in Lund and leading a group of engineers, he developed the specification for Bluetooth.[3][4][5][6] Later, in 1997 he moved to Ericsson division in Emmen. Following his breakthrough at Ericsson, Haartsen served as Chief Technology Officer at Tonalite BV (later acquired by Plantronics). Between 2000 and 2008 he was a part-time professor at University of Twente, teaching mobile radio communications systems. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Currently, he is a partner of an Assen-based consumer electronics company, Dopple.

References

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  1. ^ "Jaap Haartsen Speaker Agent - Technology". Champions Speakers. 28 April 2025. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
  2. ^ Haartsen, Jacobus Cornelis. "Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters" (PDF). TU Delft. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  3. ^ "2003 InfoWorld Innovator: Jaap C. Haartsen". Infoworld. 23 May 2003. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  4. ^ "Bluetooth Pioneer". Time Magazine. 1 November 2000. Archived from the original on October 19, 2000. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  5. ^ "The bluetooth blues". Information Age. 10 February 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  6. ^ Haartsen, Jaap C. (February 2000). "The Bluetooth Radio System". IEEE Personal Communications. 7: 28–36. doi:10.1109/98.824570. S2CID 2929882.