Bluetooth BLE Pairing and Security
BLE products may exchange data by establishing point-to-point connections like BR/EDR, or use a combination of connectionless communication using advertising, or they communicate by broadcasting advertising packets.
BLE advertising may be used to indicate the availability of a peripheral device to establish a connection, transfer data, or simply broadcast a beacon. Advertising packets may be used to transfer data concurrently to multiple scanning devices in a one-to-many topology. There is also a special form of advertising known as directed advertising, in which one device transmits data to the MAC address of a specific device, without establishing a connection.
Although advertising only supports the communication ...
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