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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

Setting Up Your System to Write Android Applications


For those who came late, here is a little bit of history on Android.

Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Google. The initial release of Android happened on September 23, 2008. Alongside the release, Google also took the initiative to form the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which is a group of 84 companies including Sony, Dell, Samsung Electronics, HTC, and Motorola to name a few. Note that Android was and is a platform, and the primary purpose of the OHA was to develop open standards for mobile devices and promote the Android platform.

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For more information about the Android operating system, visit https://www.android.com/.

Looking at the historical timeline of Android releases, you will realize that Android has really come a long way since 2008:

Figure 5: Android version history timeline; source: www.wikipedia.com

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Fun fact—All of the code names for Android flavors are in reference to sweets and the first letter...