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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


In this chapter we took the road less traveled, and by using an iTag in a nontraditional manner, we ended up building a Bluetooth Low Energy based proximity solution. Apart from the overall technical implementation, another important detail worth mentioning is the fact that we executed our code of the Android App on a Samsung Galaxy S8 device (alongside with LG Nexus 5), which is a very special device in today's market due to the fact that it is the only device that supports BLE 5 available at the time of writing. We recommend that you do run the examples presented in this book on a device that supports BLE 5, since this will help you gauge the important practical differences between the older and relatively newer BLE versions. Also, we request that you follow up both the Android and iOS examples with the homework exercises outlined in the individual sections. This will not only strengthen your overall solid grounding in Bluetooth Low Energy, but will also help with a better understanding...