August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
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An Overview of Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Low Energy or Bluetooth Smart is a comparatively new wireless communication technology that was introduced by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group in 2010. Although the technology itself was being developed way earlier by Nokia around 2001 to 2006 under the name Wibree, it was not until 2007 that an agreement was reached with the various members of Bluetooth SIG that Wibree should now be included in the Core Bluetooth Specification, a task which was completed in 2010, when Wibree became a part of Bluetooth Core Specification version 4.0 as Bluetooth Smart, commonly known as Bluetooth Low Energy (its original name). The first mobile device to incorporate the 4.0 specification was iPhone 4S. However, ...