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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

Set up your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian


In order to start setting up your Raspberry Pi, you need to first install the Raspbian OS. Raspbian is a Debian-based Linux operating system for the Raspberry Pi. It was created in June 2012 by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project, but now the Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends it. This book will teach you how to install Raspbian using New Out Of the Box Software (NOOBS). NOOBS is an operating system installer that contains Raspbian. In addition to this, it also provides an alternative OS in case you don't want to use Raspbian.

Note

You can download NOOBS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/.

After downloading NOOBS, extract it. Select all the files in the extracted directory and copy them to an SD card. The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with a built-in microSD card slot. You can connect your microSD card into an SD card jacket and copy the files after connecting it to your computer. Once they are copied, insert the card in the Raspberry...