Last Update: Jan 1, 2018 This guide is outdated and has been superseded by the BLE Chipset Guide for 2019 and Beyond Overview Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are rapidly making their way to all kinds of new products. Because they’re integrated into smartphones, they allow a user to talk to any enabled product easily without any
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Overview BLE Advertising is one of the most important aspects of Bluetooth Low Energy. Understanding how to properly use advertisements can help you lower your power consumption, speed up your connections, and improve reliability. BLE Advertisements is also key to beacons, which have grown in popularity to create location and tracking. We’re going to go
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What is Bluetooth Low Energy? Bluetooth Low Energy is a wireless protocol introduced in 2010 to enable quick and easy connection between devices and smartphones. It also allows creating device to device connections without smartphones, but has been used to connect appcessories to iPhones, for example. BLE can connect: Are Bluetooth Low Energy and Classic
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Last Update: Jun 25, 2019 Overview Many new Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chipsets have been released since our last review. Our previous discussion on selecting a Bluetooth chipset went over some of the second-generation devices, but today we’re going to go over the latest devices you should be designing with in 2019 and beyond. We’re going to
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One of the first decisions you’ll have to make when you start designing a Bluetooth product is whether you’ll use a module or a discrete Bluetooth chip. We won’t get into the details of which chip to choose since we have a great guide for selecting a Bluetooth chipset. So, we’ll assume that you’ve already chosen your device,
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Overview In our previous guide, we went over BLE advertising and how BLE advertising works in general. But we’ve still gotten many questions about how to do the Bluetooth LE advertising right for many use cases. This guide will cover creating BLE advertising packets in depth, to help you create better products. Advertising BLE Advertising and
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Why Bluetooth Low Energy? Bluetooth Low Energy, also called BLE, was introduced in 2010 and ushered in a new age of connectivity, especially between smart devices and smartphones. BLE is a new wireless protocol that shares some features with Bluetooth Classic. It takes some of the same concepts pioneered by Bluetooth like simple connections and
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Overview Bluetooth is a great wireless technology that can cover a lot of applications. One of the most important things to consider with Bluetooth is the wireless range. The range of a Bluetooth or BLE system depends on a variety of factors, from the chip, to the antenna. The technology itself creates limitations given the
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Since BLE was designed from the ground up for low power battery devices, it’s common to see a wide range of batteries used in designs. Besides the popular Coin Cell batteries you will also see Alkaline, Lithium and many other chemistries. This guide is designed to give you a broad overview of the choices in
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If you want to get started building Bluetooth projects then using Bluetooth with an Arduino is a great way to go. It’s much easier to use Arduino to connect sensors and get a project going. The Arduino example code is great for this. For the Bluetooth part you’ll find that there are a lot of Bluetooth
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We all want our Bluetooth Smart device to work the first time. But the reality is that it can take a lot of effort to get everything working smoothly. BLE products usually have a lot of moving parts that create a challenge, among them: What makes BLE more challenging than other systems is that the
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Overview The Raspberry Pi is a popular platform because of its low cost and high integration. In addition to Wi-Fi and Ethernet, this board also has integrated Bluetooth which support BLE. The Rapsberry Pi support for Bluetooth depends on specifically on which Raspberry Pi you have: Board Bluetooth Chipset Bluetooth Supported Raspberry Pi 3 Model
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