BLE Hardware, Software, and Debugging Tools

Bluetooth Low Energy, a successor to the Classic Bluetooth, is a young technology with huge adoption rate and big market. The technology made itself visible in mid 2010; when big manufacturers like Apple launched their products in the market with Bluetooth Low Energy support. Not only this, but Bluetooth version 4.0 took care of the biggest dilemma of the previous decade. It now consumed less power as compare to its predecessor. Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the developers and maintainers of Bluetooth technology, made sure that the technology matched the trend of the market and helped to spread itself in the Internet of Things (IoT). Chapter 1, BLE and the Internet of Things, described the context of Bluetooth Low Energy in the world of the Internet of Things and how it got popular amongst the manufacturer as a cheap short-distance communication technology. This...