Extending Linux controllability of Bluetooth Low Energy devices in the IoT
Sorin Zamfir, Bogdan-Alexandru Lupu, George Alex Stelea, Dan Robu · 2017
The Bluetooth Low Energy technology has become more and more popular among wearable devices due to its low price and reduced power consumption. However, the development industry has oriented itself among mobile platforms neglecting the standard operating systems and providing only a limited set of integration possibilities most often using a smart-phone, restricting in this way the utility of such sensors in more complex services. In this paper we provide a demonstrator capable of running on a standard Linux host, interacting with two Bluetooth enabled devices and also demonstrate a programmatic approach using the Java language. Furthermore we explain in detail our exploratory methodology and the tools used to achieve our proof-of-concept.