Bluetooth SmartAndroid Australia Meetup - March 2014

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You may know it as

Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth 4.0 - LE spec

BLE

Bluetooth Smart is:

ultra low power ⌁

inexpensive "

standard ✓

90% of smartphones will be Bluetooth Smart ready by 2018

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Source: http://eecatalog.com/consumerelectronics/2013/10/31/bluetooth-smart-chip-growth-to-exceed-55-percent-driven-by-adoption-in-consumer-electronics/

Bluetooth Smart IC shipment forecasts

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It’s already supported by 000’s of devices

smartphones

$watches

⌚healthcare devices

&automobiles

🚘

fitness equipment

(GPS

)cameras

📷laptops

+

IoT devices

,phone accessory

-game systems

♞A/V systems

♫

Bluetooth smart devices constantly advertise their presence

Classic Bluetooth devices wait for requests from active scanning devices

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The proximity interaction sweet spot

source: localz research

Bluetooth Smart!

Proximity accuracy range!5cm! .5m! 1m! 5m! 10m! 50m! 500m! 1km+!

Wi-Fi!

QR!

NFC!

GPS!

Mobile Network!

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Micro-location interactions!

Apple released iBeacon in 2013!

it’s got an “i” so it must be big

“a new class of low-powered, low-cost transmitters that can notify nearby iOS 7 devices of

their presence”

Source: https://developer.apple.com/ios7/

iBeacon can be used as …

2 A relative positioning system

3 A trigger for app events

4 A cookie for the real world

It is not a replacement for two-way Bluetooth services

more on that later

Enter retail proximity interactions

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BLE Beacon

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Now supported - Hooray!

Android 4.3+

Currently working on…

Nexus 4, 5, 7, 10

Droid RAZR, MotoG/X, Ultra, Maxx, Mini

Galaxy S3*, S4, S5, Note2/3

One, One Max, One X+, Droid DNA

Xperia Series

source: www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth-Smart-Devices-List.aspx

Not all roles are supported

Peripheral

Central

Broadcaster

Observer

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Supported?*

client that connects to peripheral

server that connects to clients

server that only broadcasts

client that scans/listens but does not connect$

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*As of Android 4.4Props to: http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/12/bluetooth-smart-for-android/

iBeacon protocol

Built on the Bluetooth Smart specification

Note: Apple has only released the iBeacon specification to select Made for iPhone program participants. However, this is under NDA. iBeacon is a trademark of Apple Inc.

Fixed iBeacon Prefix (9 Bytes)

UUID (16 Bytes)

Major ID (2 Bytes)

Minor ID (2 Bytes)

Tx power (1 Byte)

preamble, addresses and headers (12 bytes)

checksum (5 bytes)

BLE advertisement packet (~47 Bytes)

Comparison

␡

iBeacon client ✓✓

iBeacon server✓

Scan unregistered iBeacons ✓␡

Background app notifications

Hard closed app notifications

✓

✓

✓

-*iBeacon support requires

3rd party libraries

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iOS 7

But there is much more to Bluetooth Smart

The GATT Stack

A range of pre-defined Bluetooth Smart services

Alert Notification Service⚠

Battery Service🔋

Time Services⏲

Cycling Power🚲

Cycling Speed & Cadence🚲

Device Information$

Generic Access🔗

Blood Pressure>

Glucose Service💉

Health Thermometer@

Heart Rate♥

Human Interface Device💻

Location & Navigation )

Phone Alert Service📞

Running Speed & CadenceD

Tx PowerE

Find Me Profile🔎

Complete list of services at: www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications

Further reading

www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth-Smart-Devices.aspx

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth-le.html

www.doubleencore.com/2013/12/bluetooth-smart-for-android/

www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-R-low-energy

bit.ly/1hur3sT

Questions? pete.williams@localz.co

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