[Gambas-user] Bluethooth Smart (otherwise known as BLE 4.1) control anyone?

joem joem at ...2671...
Mon Sep 21 11:04:32 CEST 2015


Bluethooth Smart (otherwise known as BLE 4.1) control anyone?

Just noticed this might be big soon.

The idea is that IoT devices connected by bluetooth and powered by a
coin cell for up to a year are just about to dematerialise.

It would be nice to have a drop in control that transmits
and receives data to these devices.

The Dialog Semiconductor devices are microscopic 5.5mm x 8mm
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/25pcs-lot-DA14580-ultra-low-power-Bluetooth-4-1-module-free-shipping/32274688614.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.95.BF6sdb&s=p&ws_ab_test=201526_2,201527_2_71_72_73_74_75,201409_5

The bluethooth stack for Linux http://www.bluez.org/
does support BLE4.1 if
HCI Version: (0x7) is showing when hciconfig -a
command is run under Ubuntu.

They are also supposed to have good range.
So in theory one of these modems in every gadget powered by a coin
cell could be updating your PC with information such as temperature,
doors opening and closing and so on. As its so tiny, it can be made into
a wearable and turned into proximity sensor so that its possible to know
where you are in a building and computer can contact you :)



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