Summary

The focus of this chapter was to give readers an idea about the hardware and software tools available for the development. It described some examples of the Bluetooth hardware available for development including Nordic nRF51 development kit (with soft-devices), Adafruit Bluefruit BLE development kit and Coin Arduino BLE kit. In the software category, the chapter discussed Bluetooth Developer Studio by SIG, Nordic Semiconductor tools like nRF Connect, nRF Logger, nRF Beacon for Eddystone, nRF BLE Joiner and nRF UART 2.0. The chapter concluded itself with the introduction of two beacon applications by Google. Google Beacon Tools and Google physical web which are used in the Internet of Things applications. The chapter emphasized on ...

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