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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

Summary

The focus of this chapter was to give readers an idea about the hardware and software tools available for the development. It described some examples of the Bluetooth hardware available for development including Nordic nRF51 development kit (with soft-devices), Adafruit Bluefruit BLE development kit and Coin Arduino BLE kit. In the software category, the chapter discussed Bluetooth Developer Studio by SIG, Nordic Semiconductor tools like nRF Connect, nRF Logger, nRF Beacon for Eddystone, nRF BLE Joiner and nRF UART 2.0. The chapter concluded itself with the introduction of two beacon applications by Google. Google Beacon Tools and Google physical web which are used in the Internet of Things applications. The chapter emphasized on the technical specifications and the uses of these tools rather than the explanation of the functionality. You will learn how to use these tools to their best in the coming chapters...

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