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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

You're reading from   Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems Take your first steps in IoT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461087
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Muhammad Usama bin Aftab Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
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Preface 1. BLE and the Internet of Things FREE CHAPTER 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

Bluetooth Over-The-Air device firmware update

In this section, we will take a look at Nordic's device firmware update Android library that can be used to upload firmware on an nRF5x series based device. In nRF5x Series Nordic chips and S-series SoftDevices, you can perform OTA device firmware update. Consider, you have a device that features nRF5x SoC and you wrote an Android application to communicate with that device. Using OTA DFU library, you can pull the new firmware from the cloud to the app and wirelessly upgrade the firmware in your device. Refer to the following diagram to understand this flow:

The latest version of Nordic’s OTA DFU library is  version 1.3.0 and can be downloaded from here https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-DFU-Library. From Android library version 1.3.0, Nordic introduced a secure device firmware update mechanism. A detailed description of BLE secure...
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