July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
Content preview from Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Bluetooth Low Energy (also called Bluetooth Smart)
Named after a tenth-century Danish king who unified several fractious tribes, Bluetooth is a familiar technology to most consumers. The specification is maintained by an organization called the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) made up of 25,000 companies. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a newer implementation that is not directly compatible with Bluetooth classic (of mobile phone headset fame). It was designed for low power needs and a less frequent data exchange rate. The following chart represents the network protocol stack for BLE:
A BLE device is either a master or a slave in the ...