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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)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Estimote beacons


Estimote Inc. was founded by Jakub Krzych and Lukasz Kostka in 2012. The company focuses on making low-power IoT devices that can stick to walls or objects. They use many technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, HDMI, and mesh networking. Their devices normally come with sensors, such as motion, temperature, ambient light, magnetometer, pressure, and telemetry. They specialize in Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons with full support for Eddystone and iBeacon platforms. In this chapter, we will take a look at their SDK and practical examples that you can implement using Estimote beacons.

Note

Estimote has a wide variety of beacons for different kinds of applications. I recommend buying Long Range Location Beacons because they provide much more flexibility and options. You can buy Estimote beacons at http://estimote.com/#get-beacons-section.

Estimote Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons feature a 32-bit ARM Cortex CPU with a 2.4 GHz radio for Bluetooth communication. The battery typically...