August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
Content preview from IoT Projects with Bluetooth Low Energy
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Summary
In this chapter we took the road less traveled, and by using an iTag in a nontraditional manner, we ended up building a Bluetooth Low Energy based proximity solution. Apart from the overall technical implementation, another important detail worth mentioning is the fact that we executed our code of the Android App on a Samsung Galaxy S8 device (alongside with LG Nexus 5), which is a very special device in today's market due to the fact that it is the only device that supports BLE 5 available at the time of writing. We recommend that you do run the examples presented in this book on a device that supports BLE 5, since this will help you gauge the important practical differences between the older and relatively newer BLE versions. Also, ...