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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

Indoor Proximity and Localization with an iTag


With the advent of Bluetooth Low Energy, a technology which is rapidly maturing, it has already started to find its way into a variety of premises.

iTags are small Bluetooth Low Energy sensors, which can be planted on things or individuals (especially toddlers) to track whether the iTag is nearby or far away:

Figure 4: iTag; source: www.amazon.com

You can buy an iTag for a few Euros online or at a nearby electronics shop.

The Bluetooth implementation of an iTag usually consists of a Link Loss and Immediate Alert Service.

Apart from many other functionalities, the Immediate Alert and Link Loss services are used for providing alerts when the device link is lost.

Note

To read more about the Link Loss Service in detail, visit https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/gatt/viewer...