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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 2. Setting Up

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

- Anonymous

We established quite a theoretical foundation in the last chapter by covering the pillars on which Bluetooth Low Energy is designed upon. In this chapter, we will be setting up our development environment, which will help us to put all that theory into practice.

We will eventually set up our development environment by covering the following topics:

  • Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy Sensors
  • Setting Up Your System to Write Android Applications
  • Setting Up Your System to Write iOS Applications
  • Configuring the Firebase Cloud Backend
  • Introduction to Raspberry Pi
  • Introduction to GitHub