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You're reading from Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems Take your first steps in IoT

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461087

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Bluetooth Low Energy

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

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

What you need for this book

In order to keep up with the book, you will need to spend some time learning basic coding. In addition to RESTful APIs, this book refers to three major programming languages:

Java 8 for Android
SWIFT 3 for iOS
Node.js

Additionally, you will need following software tools:

Android Studio 2.3
XCode 8
The nRF Connect Android/iOS app.
Estimote apps and SDK for Android and iOS
CSR uEnergy tools
CSRMesh Library for Android
NOOBS version 2.4.0
Bluetooth Developer Studio

From a hardware standpoint, this book will require you to work with:

CSRMesh Development Kit
Raspberry Pi 3 with Bluetooth Low Energy.
iPhone with BLE to implement iOS applications
Android phone with BLE to implement Android applications
Estimote Location Beacons

This book also refers to the Estimote Beacon Management dashboard in the cloud to manage your beacons.

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Authors (1)

Usama bin Aftab

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab is a software engineer at one of the leading solar lighting manufacturers in North America. At Carmanah Technologies, he works closely with the product development and management teams to develop software for embryonic technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy. He also focuses on full-stack development using Angular 2 and Java. His main areas of interest range from mobile application development to information security. Mr. Aftab is an alumnus of the University of Victoria, Canada, where he received his master's degree in applied science in electrical and computer engineering. Mr. Aftab has experience in Android, iOS, and cross-platform gaming technologies (such as Unity 3D), which led him to coauthor Learning Android Intents for Packt in 2014.

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