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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 Low Energy hardware

Classic Bluetooth was famous for its short distance connectivity in a cellular phone. This communication was a breakthrough over conventional IR communication as it did not require line-of-sight communication. The result was marvelous. It got famous among the cellular phone users and almost every vendor started to support Classic Bluetooth. The idea of the Bluetooth was simple enough for any lay person. You did not require any technical knowledge in order to send files and pictures to someone else's device. All you need to do is to enter the same passcode on two devices before pairing them.

It is not untrue to say that the success of Classic Bluetooth was marked by cellular industry. Users of Bluetooth did not require any additional Bluetooth hardware, rather their personal phones contained the built-in facility to connect to another Bluetooth device. Before the concept of Bluetooth...

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