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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 7. Going Further

"I'm still learning"

- Michelangelo (at the age of 87)

This chapter will be the conclusion of the journey which we started six chapters back. We will be covering the following topics in this chapter to enhance your knowledge about Bluetooth 5, which is the latest release by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG):

  • Bluetooth 5
  • Practical Use Cases
  • Future of BLE
  • Future of IoT

Moving further in this chapter, we will be introducing various practical use cases of IoT built using Bluetooth Low Energy, which are already being used by people in their day-to-day lives. These cases will give you a bird's-eye view of Bluetooth Low Energy applications with respect to IoT in different domains.

Eventually, we will discuss what the future holds for BLE and IoT, and we shall conclude by consolidating what we have learned so far.