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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

Summary


This chapter dealt with the concept of mesh networks and how Bluetooth mesh networks are beneficial over conventional Bluetooth Low Energy. ZigBee was discussed as a competitor of Bluetooth Low Energy in mesh technology. We then had a brief introduction to security complications in Bluetooth mesh networks. The goal of this chapter was to provide you with a practical approach, so you can implement your own project. Therefore, the CSRMesh API was discussed in detail, where we saw a step-by-step approach to implementing Android control for a CSRMesh network.

In the next chapter, we will learn another practical implementation of BLE, an Internet-Bluetooth gateway using the Raspberry Pi 3.