You're reading from Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems Take your first steps in IoT

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461087

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Bluetooth Low Energy

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. BLE and the Internet of Things FREE CHAPTER

2. BLE Hardware, Software, and Debugging Tools

3. Building a BLE Central and Peripheral Communication System

4. Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

5. BLE Indoor Navigation Using Estimote Beacons

6. Bluetooth Mesh Technology

7. Implementing a Bluetooth Gateway Using the Raspberry Pi 3

8. The Future of Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Over-The-Air device firmware update

In this section, we will take a look at Nordic's device firmware update Android library that can be used to upload firmware on an nRF5x series based device. In nRF5x Series Nordic chips and S-series SoftDevices, you can perform OTA device firmware update. Consider, you have a device that features nRF5x SoC and you wrote an Android application to communicate with that device. Using OTA DFU library, you can pull the new firmware from the cloud to the app and wirelessly upgrade the firmware in your device. Refer to the following diagram to understand this flow:

The latest version of Nordic’s OTA DFU library is version 1.3.0 and can be downloaded from here https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-DFU-Library. From Android library version 1.3.0, Nordic introduced a secure device firmware update mechanism. A detailed description of BLE secure...

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Authors (1)

Usama bin Aftab

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab is a software engineer at one of the leading solar lighting manufacturers in North America. At Carmanah Technologies, he works closely with the product development and management teams to develop software for embryonic technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy. He also focuses on full-stack development using Angular 2 and Java. His main areas of interest range from mobile application development to information security. Mr. Aftab is an alumnus of the University of Victoria, Canada, where he received his master's degree in applied science in electrical and computer engineering. Mr. Aftab has experience in Android, iOS, and cross-platform gaming technologies (such as Unity 3D), which led him to coauthor Learning Android Intents for Packt in 2014.

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