Building Bluetooth Low Energy Systems电子书

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

BLE and the Internet of Things

Internet of Things

Modern day IoT

Real life examples of the Internet of Things

Wearables

The fitness tracker

Smart home devices

Amazon Echo

Wireless bulbs

Smart refrigerators

Television and online media

Google Chromecast

Apple TV

Automotive industry

Technologies in the Internet of Things

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)

Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

ZigBee

Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth versions

Bluetooth Low Energy Key Concepts

Attribute Protocol (ATT) and Generic Attribute Profile (GATT)

GATT Server and GATT Client

Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs)

GATT-based Bluetooth Profile Hierarchy

Service

Characteristic

Generic Access Profile (GAP)

Broadcaster

Observer

Central

Peripheral

Bluetooth Low Energy Security

Key Generation

Association Models in Pairing

Numeric Comparison

Just Works

Out of Band (OOB)

Passkey Entry

Signing the Data

Privacy

Bluetooth Low Energy for the Internet of Things

Applications of BLE in IoT

Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon use-case

Communication model of BLE Beacons

Bluetooth mesh networks

Summary

BLE Hardware, Software, and Debugging Tools

Bluetooth Low Energy hardware

Development kits

Nordic semiconductor nRF51 development kit

S110 SoftDevice

S120 SoftDevice

S130 SoftDevice

Adafruit Bluefruit LE on nRF8001 Bluetooth Low Energy IC

Coin Arduino BLE hardware

Bluetooth Low Energy software

Bluetooth Developer Studio by Special Interest Group

Nordic Semiconductor tools

nRF Connect for Mobile (Android and iOS)

nRF UART (Android and iOS)

nRF Logger (Android)

nRF Beacon for Eddystone (Android and iOS)

nRF BLE Joiner (Android)

Google Beacon tools (Android)

Physical web (Android)

Summary

Building a BLE Central and Peripheral Communication System

Bluetooth Low Energy central and peripheral

Examples of Bluetooth central peripheral communication

Smartphone – smartwatch communication

Smartphone – smart LED strip communication

Android Bluetooth Low Energy

An introduction to Android

Bluetooth Low Energy in API level 24

Bluetooth Low Energy permissions

Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces

BluetoothAdapter.LeScanCallback

BluetoothProfile.ServiceListener

Bluetooth Low Energy classes

BluetoothAdapter

BluetoothGatt

BluetoothGattCallback

BluetoothGattService

BluetoothGattCharacteristic

Building an Android app to list Bluetooth devices in the proximity

Conventions

Permissions in AndroidManifest.xml

Runtime permissions

Bluetooth scanning process

Custom list adapter and ListView

Android app - heart rate monitor application

Deploying the GATT server using Nordic Connect

Writing central-side Android apps

Writing data on the characteristic

Bluetooth Over-The-Air device firmware update

Adding Android DFU library using Gradle

DFUService

FirmwareUpdateActivity

Summary

Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

Applications of Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

Beginner applications

Advanced applications

Beacon protocols

Google Eddystone

Eddystone-UID

Eddystone-EID

Eddystone-URL

Apple iBeacon

Estimote beacons

Estimote SDK for Android

Getting started

Background monitoring and ranging

Estimote SDK for iOS

Physical web using Estimote

Estimote cloud interface

Summary

BLE Indoor Navigation Using Estimote Beacons

Introducing indoor navigation

Estimote Location Beacons and triangulation

Estimote Location Beacons

Triangulation for indoor navigation

Indoor location using the Estimote Location Beacons

Setting up an indoor location using the iOS app

Estimote Location SDK on Swift

EILIndoorLocationManager

EILLocation

EILLocationBuilder

EILOrientedPoint

EILPositionedBeacon

EILRequestAddLocation

EILRequestFetchLocation

EILRequestModifyLocation and EILRequestRemoveLocation

Implementing indoor navigation using the Estimote Location SDK on Swift

Summary

Bluetooth Mesh Technology

Introduction to mesh networking

Advantages of mesh networking

Mesh networking in wireless technologies

Wireless mesh networks

Mesh networking in ZigBee

Mesh networking in Bluetooth Low Energy

Security complications in BLE mesh

CSRMesh

Setting up the CSRMesh development kit

The Android CSRMesh control application

Step 1 - connect to the network

Step 2 - set up a mesh network

Step 3 - associate new devices with your network

Step 4 - authorize connected devices

Additional step - controlling light and thermostat

Additional step - configuring your devices

Additional step - grouping your devices

CSRMesh library for Android

Getting started with the CSRMesh Android library

Using MeshService

Mesh handler

Mesh controlling using Model classes

Summary

Implementing a Bluetooth Gateway Using the Raspberry Pi 3

Introducing the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

Applications of the Raspberry Pi in the Internet of Things

Media center using Raspberry Pi

Cloud storage using Raspberry Pi

Tracker using Raspberry Pi

Web server using Raspberry Pi

Gateway for Bluetooth devices using Raspberry Pi

Set up your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

Deploying a Bluetooth gateway on your Raspberry Pi

Step 1 - Update and upgrade the Pi

Step 2 - Installing Bluetooth and Node.js

Step 3 - Getting the project folder

Step 4 - Running the web server

Implementing a Bluetooth gateway on the Raspberry Pi

Bluetooth SIG GATT server API

RESTful services offered by the RESTful smart server API

Important libraries and their usage

Important JavaScript in the gateway project

Implementing the Bluetooth gateway explorer v2

Important libraries used in the web application

Important JavaScript used in the web application

Summary

The Future of Bluetooth Low Energy

The Internet of Things and the role of Bluetooth Low Energy

History and its motion

The future of technology and the Internet of Things

Bluetooth Low Energy in the future of IoT

Use of IoT in smart cities and the automobile industry

Technical challenges

Financial challenges

Potential research in Bluetooth Low Energy

Enhancing meshes in Bluetooth

Enhancing security in Bluetooth

Summary