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Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems

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):

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

Chapter 8. The Future of Bluetooth Low Energy

In this book, we looked at different aspects of Bluetooth Low Energy. Starting with the very basics of Bluetooth Low Energy and the Internet of Things, we covered some projects that informed us about BLE's practicality. At this point, you should be able to implement your own Bluetooth Low Energy projects in your home or at work. In this chapter, we will put our pens down and try to look into the future. It is always tricky business to predict the future of a fast-changing technology. Having said that, I am confident that technology has a certain pattern and that by following the correct path, we should be able to look into the future.

This theoretical chapter will cover the following topics:

The Internet of Things and the role of Bluetooth Low Energy
Using the Internet of Things in smart cities and the automobile industry
Potential research in Bluetooth Low Energy

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Authors (1)

Usama bin Aftab

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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