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Published inAug 2017
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Madhur Bhargava
Madhur Bhargava
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Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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In this chapter we took the road less traveled, and by using an iTag in a nontraditional manner, we ended up building a Bluetooth Low Energy based proximity solution. Apart from the overall technical implementation, another important detail worth mentioning is the fact that we executed our code of the Android App on a Samsung Galaxy S8 device (alongside with LG Nexus 5), which is a very special device in today's market due to the fact that it is the only device that supports BLE 5 available at the time of writing. We recommend that you do run the examples presented in this book on a device that supports BLE 5, since this will help you gauge the important practical differences between the older and relatively newer BLE versions. Also, we request that you follow up both the Android and iOS examples with the homework exercises outlined in the individual sections. This will not only strengthen your overall solid grounding in Bluetooth Low Energy, but will also help with a better understanding...

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Published in: Aug 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788399449

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Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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