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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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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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

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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