Book Image

IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

By : Madhur Bhargava
Book Image

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

Introduction to Raspberry Pi


For the purpose of introduction, Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board computers, created by Raspberry Pi Foundation in February 2012.

Note

To read more about Raspberry Pi Foundation, visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/.

The vision behind these miniature computers was to teach basic computer science in the schools in and around the UK and in various developing countries, which is identified by the mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, that is, "To put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world".

However, due to their low cost and longer durability, Raspberry Pi surpassed the anticipation of its makers by becoming hugely popular with hackers and novices alike. It further went on to become the best-selling PC in the UK of all time.

The following figure shows the timeline of the release of various models of Raspberry Pi up until 2015:

Figure 5: Timeline, the advent and evolution of Raspberry Pi

February 2016 marked the advent of a...