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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

By : Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

By: Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

Overview of this book

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a Wireless Personal Area network technology aimed at novel applications for smart devices. High-tech BLE profiles and services are being increasingly used by application developers and hardware enthusiasts to allow devices to interact with the surrounding world. This book will focus on a technical introduction to BLE and how it is reshaping small-distance communication. We will start with IoT, where many technologies such as BLE, Zigbee, and IEEE 802.15.4 Mesh will be introduced. The book will present BLE from an engineering perspective, from which the protocol stack, architecture, and layers are discussed. You will learn to implement customized projects for Peripheral/Central communication, BLE Beacons, indoor navigation using triangulation, and the Internet gateway for Bluetooth Low Energy Personal Network, all using various code samples and APIs on Android, iOS, and the Web. Finally, the book will conclude with a glimpse into future technologies destined to be prominent in years to come.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface

Chapter 3. Building a BLE Central and Peripheral Communication System

Bluetooth Low Energy is a comparatively recent communication technology that is spreading wildly in our world. Due to low power consumption, it is easily implementable on cellular platforms, thus providing millions of users a fast and secure way to transfer their data from one device to another. In the previous chapters, we discussed the origin of Bluetooth Low Energy, its usage in the Internet of Things and some software/hardware development kits that can be used to implement your personal Bluetooth Low Energy device. From now on, we will start to put things in practice and implement things with the tools discussed in the last chapter. This chapter will define the very core of the Bluetooth Low Energy communication model by discussing:

  • An overview of BLE Central/Peripheral architecture with the role of GATT Server/Client
  • Android platform for Bluetooth Low Energy Communications
  • Android services and characteristics using UUIDs...