Bluetooth Low Energy: The Developer's Handbook

Chapter 3. Architecture

That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

—Steve Jobs

The architecture for Bluetooth low energy is fundamentally very simple. As shown in Figure 3–1, it is split into three basic parts: controller, host, and applications. The controller is typically a physical device that can transmit and receive radio signals and understand how these signals can be interpreted as packets with information within them. The host is typically a software stack that manages how two or more devices communicate with one another and how several different ...