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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

You're reading from Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

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Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461087

Pages 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

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Preface

1. BLE and the Internet of Things

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

Deploying a Bluetooth gateway on your Raspberry Pi

The goal of this project is to convert your Raspberry Pi into a Bluetooth gateway so that it can scan and inform you about the surrounding Bluetooth devices (including their services and characteristics). The prerequisites of this project are:

A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (or Raspberry Pi 2 with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth dongles)
An Internet connection

Let's start by setting up the required packages on the Raspberry Pi. I will assume that you are a Linux novice and will explain every step in detail.

Step 1 - Update and upgrade the Pi

The first step before starting development on your Raspberry is to make sure that it is up to date. To do this, run the following command:

sudo apt-get update

This command will update the package lists from the repositories and update them to get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies. The next step is to upgrade the installed packages to the latest packages. To do this, run the following command...

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Authors (1)

Muhammad 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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