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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


Beacons are a different and an important paradigm related to Bluetooth Low Energy. They are becoming increasingly popular day by day. Google and Apple already foresaw that, and defined their own standard formats for Beacon advertisements which we covered in this chapter. We also briefly discussed Physical Web, which is Google's grand plan to convert Internet of things to Internet of everything. We shall discuss Physical Web in detail in the last chapter.

As this chapter draws to a conclusion, we move on to the grand finale, our final project for this book, where we design an industrial solution for warehouse monitoring. We shall also introduce a new interesting sensor in that chapter. The project is of utmost importance, given the fact that that it is already being applied in warehouses across the US and UK. So, stay tuned!