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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 6. Weather Monitoring Using BLE in Warehouses

Creativity is just connecting things.

- Steve Jobs

In this chapter, we shall build a warehouse monitoring system, which is an Industrial grade solution and will help us in better understanding the roots of the foundations of IoT based on Bluetooth Low Energy via the following topics:

  • Problem Statement and Solution Design
  • Temperature and Humidity Sensors
  • Designing the Monitoring App
  • Practical Applications

Through the earlier mentioned topics, on a very high level, we shall attempt to understand why there is a need for such a solution, eventually translating that need into a problem statement and finally attempting to address the problem statement by proposing a solution design. This chapter will also introduce you to a real-life scenario, which can be addressed by a solution designed around IoT and BLE. Apart from solution design, it will also augment your pre-existing skill set from the previous chapters by adding the knowledge of some more...