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IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

By : Madhur Bhargava
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IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

By: Madhur Bhargava

Overview of this book

Bluetooth Low Energy, or Bluetooth Smart, is Wireless Personal Area networking aimed at smart devices and IoT applications. BLE has been increasingly adopted by application developers and IoT enthusiasts to establish connections between smart devices. This book initially covers all the required aspects of BLE, before you start working on IoT projects. In the initial stages of the book, you will learn about the basic aspects of Bluetooth Low Energy—such as discovering devices, services, and characteristics—that will be helpful for advanced-level projects. This book will guide you through building hands-on projects using BLE and IoT. These projects include tracking health data, using a mobile App, and making this data available for health practitioners; Indoor navigation; creating beacons using the Raspberry Pi; and warehouse weather Monitoring. This book also covers aspects of Bluetooth 5 (the latest release) and its effect on each of these projects. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of using Bluetooth Low Energy to integrate with smart devices and IoT projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 4. Designing a Personal Tracking System

The usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness 

- Bruce Lee

We have already covered the practical aspects of arranging data in profiles, services, and characteristics as part of Bluetooth Low Energy implementation in the peripheral devices in the Chapter 3, Building a Service Explorer App.

In this chapter, we take a break from these discussions and focus on another very interesting and lesser known aspect/parameter related to Bluetooth Low Energy, namely, Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), which we will eventually use to detect the proximity/distance (yes, you read that right) to a Bluetooth Low Energy device.

Note that there are BLE devices already available, which support Find Me and Proximity BLE Profiles which can be used to accomplish this task in a very simple and similar manner (Scan|Detect and subscribe to notifications from the relevant characteristics) as we subscribed to heart rate notifications in the Chapter 3, Building a Service...