Tutorials, guides, and insights on Bluetooth Low Energy development, from protocol fundamentals to advanced implementation techniques.
How does Bluetooth HID work? This guide explains how the USB HID protocol was adapted for Bluetooth Low Energy, covering the HID-over-GATT profile, services, characteristics, report maps, and protocol modes.
Bluetooth mesh enables many-to-many communication over Bluetooth LE, supporting up to 32,767 nodes. Learn about mesh architecture, provisioning, security, and the different node types.
A Bluetooth beacon is a small wireless device that broadcasts signals to nearby smartphones and tablets. This guide explains how beacons work, compares iBeacon and Eddystone, and covers practical use cases.
Seven practical IoT projects you can build with the programming-free InPlay IN100 NanoBeacon, including wireless sensors, key finders, and leak detectors.
What is Bluetooth Low Energy? A complete developer guide covering the protocol stack, GAP, GATT, advertising, connections, and how to start building Bluetooth LE applications.
A practical guide to selecting the right Bluetooth LE module for your embedded project, covering key criteria like features, power consumption, antenna types, and popular modules from 9 leading vendors.
Learn how to set up an Android app for Bluetooth LE scanning. Covers permissions, scan configuration, callback and PendingIntent scanning, and logging scan results using Kotlin.
Learn how to design a Bluetooth LE GATT server in 4 steps. Covers attributes, services, characteristics, UUIDs, and a weather station example using Silicon Labs' GATT Configurator.
A deep dive into the ATT protocol and GATT profile layers that enable connection-oriented data transfer between Bluetooth LE devices, covering attributes, services, characteristics, and profiles.
A beginner-friendly guide to the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol stack, covering the three subsystems (application, host, controller), GAP roles, Link Layer states, and the Physical Layer.
Protocol stacks are important for a variety of reasons. But what are they, exactly?
A communications protocol is a "set of rules that must be obeyed by all users in a device network." This is a very grand definition, but it is also very dr
