Getting Started With Bluetooth Low Energy by Kevin Townsend, Carles Cufí, Akiba -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy Preface

Who This Book Is For How to Use This Book

Overview of BLE Tools for Development and Testing Development Platforms

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

What Makes BLE Different The Specification Configurations

Based on Specification Support Based on Chip Count

Key Limitations

Data Throughput Operating Range

Network Topology

Broadcasting and Observing Connections

Protocols versus Profiles

Generic Profiles Use-Case-Specific Profiles

SIG-defined GATT-based profiles Vendor-Specific Profiles

2. Protocol Basics

Physical Layer Link Layer

Bluetooth Device Address Advertising and Scanning Connections

Host Controller Interface (HCI) Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) Attribute Protocol (ATT)

ATT operations

Security Manager (SM)

Security Procedures Pairing Algorithms Security Keys

Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) Generic Access Profile (GAP)

3. GAP (Advertising and Connections)

Roles Modes and Procedures

Broadcast and Observation Discovery

Discoverability modes Discovery procedures

Connection Establishment

Connection establishment modes Connection establishment procedures

Additional GAP Procedures

Security

Address Types Authentication Security Modes Security Modes and Procedures

Additional GAP Definitions

Advertising Data Format GAP Service

4. GATT (Services and Characteristics)

Roles UUIDs Attributes

Handle Type Permissions Value

Attribute and Data Hierarchy

Services Characteristics

Characteristic declaration attribute Characteristic value attribute

Characteristic Descriptors

Extended Properties Descriptor Characteristic User Description Descriptor Client Characteristic Configuration Descriptor Characteristic presentation format descriptor

Example Service

Advanced Attribute Concepts

Attribute Caching GATT Attribute Data in Advertising Packets

Features

Exchange MTU Service and Characteristic Discovery Reading Characteristics and Descriptors Writing Characteristics and Descriptors Server-Initiated Updates

Security GATT Service

5. Hardware Platforms

nRF51822-EK (Nordic Semiconductors)

Technical Specifications SoftDevice Architecture Working with the nRF51822-EK Examples and Toolchains

CC2541DK-MINI (Texas Instruments) Other Hardware Platforms and Modules

Laird’s BL600 Module Bluegiga’s BLE112/BLE113 Modules RFDuino

6. Debugging Tools

PCA10000 USB Dongle and the Master Control Panel PCA10000 USB Dongle and Wireshark CC2540 USB Dongle and SmartRF Sniffer SmartRF-to-Wireshark Converter Bluez hcitool and gatttool

7. Application Design Tools

Bluetooth Application Accelerator SensorTag LightBlue for iOS nRF Master Control Panel for Android

8. Android Programming

Getting Started

Get the Hardware Get the Software Configure the Hardware Start a New Project

Initializing the BLE Library Connecting to a Remote Device Communicating with a Remote Device

9. iOS Programming

Simple Battery-Level Peripheral

Scanning for Remote Peripherals Connecting to Remote Peripherals Looking Up Services Associated with a Remote Peripheral Looking Up Characteristics Associated with Services Methods for Reading and Decoding Characteristics

iBeacon

Advertising Ranging Implementing an iBeacon App

Apple Notification Center Service with an External Display

10. Embedded Application Development

mbed BLE API Embedded Toolchains

Installing GNU Tools on OS X and Linux Installing GNU Tools on Windows

nRF51822 GNU Codebase and Sample Project

Getting the nRF51822 GNU Codebase nR51822 GNU Codebase Structure Compiling Projects Writing to the nRF51822

Going Further

Index Colophon Copyright

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