Architecture

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The Bluetooth Architecture

Architecture

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Profiles

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Source

Beacons

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MFi 

• made for iOS
• Certification program
• iBeacons is a trademark of Apple Inc.

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Packet format

• Apple defined prefix
• UUID
• Major
• Minor

d6 be 89 8ed6 be 89 8e #Fixed header
e2 c5 6d b5 df fb 48 d2 b0 60 d0 f5 a7 10 96 e0 # iBeacon proximity uuid
00 00 # major 
00 00 # minor 

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Applications

• Indoor positioning
  • Contextual notifications
  • Navigation
• Complement Apple Pay (NFC)

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• Restaurants
• Baseball Stadium
• Shopping malls

iOS

Much more robust support for BLE

Android

Buggy till 5.0

Improvements in scanning recently

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iOS 7 or later

• iPhone 4s or later
• iPad (3rd generation) or later
• iPad mini or later
• iPod touch (5th generation) or later

Android 4.3 or later

Devices

<buffer overflow> There seem to be 
too many Android devices

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Chip makers for BLE

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TI

Boards

• Tah
• RFduino
• Redboard
• Light Blue Bean
• Bleduino
• Bluefruit
• Puck

Kits

• Sensor tag
• WICED
• Nordic DK

Dev boards and kits

Tah