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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399449
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Madhur Bhargava Madhur Bhargava
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Bluetooth 5

Bluetooth 5 was announced by the Bluetooth SIG on June 16, 2016 to be arriving in late 2016, and it was finally officially unveiled on December 7, 2016. As per the initial advertisement, it was announced to have "Quadruple the range of its predecessor, double the speed, and 8 times the broadcasting capacity," for low energy connections.

Let's examine each of the factors one by one so that we can understand the practical implications of each of them.

8 Times the Broadcasting Capacity

Currently, Bluetooth Low Energy (4.2) offers advertising packet sizes of 31 bytes and BLE 5 allows this to increase by a factor of eight, that is, the broadcasting capacity of a BLE 5 device would be 255...

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