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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

Summary


If you covered this chapter completely and have made it this far, then you can give yourself a pat on the back. Having an understanding of Bluetooth Low Energy on two major mobile platforms is no small feat.

As your creative juices start flowing, you will have realized the endless possibilities that Bluetooth Low Energy can generate together when combined with a backend. For example, reading data from a heart rate monitor (or any other BLE Peripheral) is one thing, but making it available to be accessed remotely, already opens doors to many interesting IoT applications of Bluetooth Low Energy, which are not just limited to healthcare.

There is so much more to come and, in the coming chapters we will go in even deeper and explore how we can make use of Bluetooth Low Energy in areas other than healthcare, such as indoor positioning/navigation, Beacon based local adverts and other commercial solutions.

In the next chapter, we will shift our focus away a little bit from the healthcare and...