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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 indoor navigation using the Estimote Location SDK on Swift


The Estimote Indoor Location SDK is only available for iOS devices. Although it is not available for Android, it is possible to write your own SDK around Estimote Beacons that can use the Beacon parameters to approximate the location. Writing your own SDK is out of the context of book, which is why we will only focus on the Estimote SDK for iOS. In order to start with it, you need the following things:

  • Mac machine with Xcode 7
  • iPhone 4S (or newer)
  • Estimote account
  • At least four registered Estimote Location Beacons (refer to previous chapters for registering Estimote Beacons)

Once you fulfill all the prerequisites, make sure that you have already set up your room on Estimote Cloud (as described in the previous section). It is time to jump into the development environment and set up a project. Make a Single View Application in Xcode and name the project accordingly. For our purposes, we are calling the project BLESystemsIndoor...

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