Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM)  today announced that it has extended its portfolio of Bluetooth® system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to enable mobile phones (and other devices) to wirelessly track and monitor health and fitness indicators. Broadcom’s implementation of the Bluetooth Health Devices Profile (HDP) helps expand the Bluetooth ecosystem to include very low power health and fitness sensors enabled by Bluetooth.

Broadcom is demonstrating its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology at next week’s 2010 Mobile World Congress, and will showcase how the company is making Bluetooth more relevant to people’s lives and expanding it to a new range of low power devices.

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