August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
Content preview from IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy
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Tile
Tile is a small square-shaped piece of hardware that you can attach to your valuables (wallet, keys, smartphone, car, and so on) to mitigate the risk of losing them:
Figure 13: Tile and corresponding smartphone app; source: www.mobilefun.co.uk
A Tile can be attached to an item that the user has a risk of losing, and in case the user loses that item then he/she can locate it with the help of the Tile smartphone app.
The Tile smartphone app uses Bluetooth Low Energy to locate lost Tiles up to a 150-foot range. Tiles have in-built buzzers, which beep audibly so that the user can locate the source of sound and hence the item.
Each user's ...