April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
6h 10m
English
In this chapter, we will dive deep into using the Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth gateway. Imagine a device that is constantly monitoring the Bluetooth IoT devices in your home and reporting to you. The Raspberry Pi 3 can act as a gateway that monitors Bluetooth devices and informs you about them. Imagine a scenario where you have an Estimote Bluetooth beacon with motion sensors and you put it on your front door. If someone breaks in, the beacon will sense it, and the Raspberry Pi will broadcast a notification using the Internet.
When you merge two technologies (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), the possibilities and the implementations are limitless. Luckily, the Raspberry Pi 3 features both of these technologies ...
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