Makita AWS information

Makita Auto-Start Wireless System (AWS, 2017‒), Festool Autostart (2018‒) and Bosch Wireless Auto-Start (2024‒) are Bluetooth-based systems for remotely starting industrial vacuum cleaners from power tools. Several power tools, cordless battery packs, and industrial vacuum cleaners ship with wireless connectivity, mostly using Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate, but as of 2024^[update] the systems remained incompatible between different brands.

Initial support in 2007 was for data logging monitored torque values; followed in 2015 by adding Bluetooth low energy beacons into power tools for asset tracking, battery status monitoring, and configuration via a mobile app.^[1] Since 2017 onwards various power tools have added support for remote starting or stopping of a dust collector (vacuum cleaner) via Bluetooth; although only between tools from the same manufacturer or group of companies.