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IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy

You're reading from IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy Harness the power of connected things

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788399449

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Android Things

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Madhur Bhargava

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Bluetooth Low Energy? FREE CHAPTER

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

In this section, we will be introducing you to Raspberry Pi, which is a completely functional computer built on a single circuit board:

Figure 28: A Raspberry Pi, Model 3B; source: www.wikipedia.com

Equivalent to the size of a credit card, this single board computer offers the following:

1GB RAM
4 USB ports
40 GPIO pins
A full HDMI port
An Ethernet port
Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video
A Camera interface (CSI)
A Display interface (DSI)
A micro SD card slot
A VideoCore IV 3D graphics core
A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU
An 802.11n Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 4.1
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Figure 29: Raspberry Pi, Model 3b, layout details; source: www.smarthomesage.com

For less than 40 euros (which is the approximate cost of this board), for starters, you can simply connect a USB 2.0 mouse and keyboard to the USB ports, hook up a monitor...

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Authors (1)

Madhur Bhargava

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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