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IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

You're reading from IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788399449

Pages 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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IoT Development

Author (1):

Madhur Bhargava

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. What is Bluetooth Low Energy?

2. Setting Up

3. Building a Service Explorer App

4. Designing a Personal Tracking System

5. Beacons with Raspberry Pi

6. Weather Monitoring Using BLE in Warehouses

7. Going Further

Introduction to Raspberry Pi

For the purpose of introduction, Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board computers, created by Raspberry Pi Foundation in February 2012.

Note

To read more about Raspberry Pi Foundation, visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/.

The vision behind these miniature computers was to teach basic computer science in the schools in and around the UK and in various developing countries, which is identified by the mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, that is, "To put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world".

However, due to their low cost and longer durability, Raspberry Pi surpassed the anticipation of its makers by becoming hugely popular with hackers and novices alike. It further went on to become the best-selling PC in the UK of all time.

The following figure shows the timeline of the release of various models of Raspberry Pi up until 2015:

Figure 5: Timeline, the advent and evolution of Raspberry Pi

February 2016 marked the advent of a...

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Authors (1)

Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.

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