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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

By : Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

By: Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

Overview of this book

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a Wireless Personal Area network technology aimed at novel applications for smart devices. High-tech BLE profiles and services are being increasingly used by application developers and hardware enthusiasts to allow devices to interact with the surrounding world. This book will focus on a technical introduction to BLE and how it is reshaping small-distance communication. We will start with IoT, where many technologies such as BLE, Zigbee, and IEEE 802.15.4 Mesh will be introduced. The book will present BLE from an engineering perspective, from which the protocol stack, architecture, and layers are discussed. You will learn to implement customized projects for Peripheral/Central communication, BLE Beacons, indoor navigation using triangulation, and the Internet gateway for Bluetooth Low Energy Personal Network, all using various code samples and APIs on Android, iOS, and the Web. Finally, the book will conclude with a glimpse into future technologies destined to be prominent in years to come.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Bluetooth Low Energy hardware


Classic Bluetooth was famous for its short distance connectivity in a cellular phone. This communication was a breakthrough over conventional IR communication as it did not require line-of-sight communication. The result was marvelous. It got famous among the cellular phone users and almost every vendor started to support Classic Bluetooth. The idea of the Bluetooth was simple enough for any lay person. You did not require any technical knowledge in order to send files and pictures to someone else's device. All you need to do is to enter the same passcode on two devices before pairing them.

It is not untrue to say that the success of Classic Bluetooth was marked by cellular industry. Users of Bluetooth did not require any additional Bluetooth hardware, rather their personal phones contained the built-in facility to connect to another Bluetooth device. Before the concept of Bluetooth Low Energy, the main hardware for Bluetooth communication was a cellular phone...