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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

Implementing the Bluetooth gateway explorer v2 


Until now, we've looked at the Bluetooth gateway/server implementation written in Node.js. In this section, we will study the gateway explorer v2 implementation of Bluetooth SIG. You can find the code in ~/BluetoothGateway/navible. A gateway explorer is a simple web application written in Node.js. Its true potential lies in developing your own client application and then calling the gateway URLs but, for the sake of simplicity, we will define the standard Bluetooth client made by the SIG. The interface of the gateway explorer looks like this:

It is a single-page application with three tabs on the top and two buttons to provide scanning and refreshing functionalities. I'll assume you have web development knowledge and will only focus on the Bluetooth connectivity. In case you do not have web development knowledge, you can develop a client on any platform (for example, Android and iOS) and link it to the gateway IP address. For this application...

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