Referred to as:<\/p>\n
Bluetooth Low Energy<\/p>\n
BLE<\/p>\n
Bluetooth Smart<\/p>\n
Part of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification, but has a different specification to classic Bluetooth (it is a lightweight subset of\u00a0classic Bluetooth).<\/p>\n
Bluetooth Low Energy is now the best \/ simplest interface to include for connectivity to any modern mobile operating system (iOS, Android, Windows phone, etc).<\/p>\n
‘Central’ – e.g. a mobile phone, tablet, computer.<\/p>\n
‘Peripheral’ – a small low power device which wants to connect to a central device.<\/p>\n
Advertising Data<\/p>\n
Sent by a peripheral device at a frequency it decides (longer delay = better battery life). \u00a0Received by any device which is listening. \u00a0Can contain up to 31 bytes of data.<\/p>\n
Scan Response<\/p>\n
Can be optionally requested by a central\u00a0device and allows a bit more data to be passed without an actual connection (e.g. device name etc).\u00a0\u00a0Can contain up to 31 bytes of data.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0peripheral can only be connected to one central device at a time and when connected\u00a0it will stop advertising itself. \u00a0Other\u00a0devices can’t\u00a0connect to it until the existing connection is dropped.<\/p>\n
A peripheral connects to a single central device, but actually a peripheral is able to broadcast a small amount of data within its advertising packet used for discovery which all listening devices can receive without actually connecting. For instance the Apple iBeacon concept uses this approach by inserting the ‘Manufacturer Specific’ Data field into the the advertising data.<\/p>\n
Data would need to be relayed via each connecting to a\u00a0central device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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