The Bluetooth® developer community is consistently breaking new barriers and repeatedly pushing the limits of wireless connectivity. To support and encourage this spirit of innovation, each year, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) releases new developer resources. For your coding convenience, we’ve assembled a list of the five most important developer resources to arrive online in 2019.
Bluetooth Mesh Models: A Technical Overview
In this detailed technical paper, Bluetooth® Developer Relations Manager Martin Woolley provides a guided tour of the Bluetooth Mesh models, taking an in-depth look at the building blocks critical to Bluetooth Mesh interoperability.
Bluetooth Direction Finding: A Technical Overview
This comprehensive overview examines the new direction finding feature included in the latest version of the Bluetooth® Core Specification. Learn the details behind how two new Bluetooth direction finding methods can enable location services solutions that support high-accuracy direction finding.
Bluetooth LE Security Study Guide
This self-study education resource provides a better understanding of the security features that Bluetooth® LE possesses and see how they work. Also, gain hands-on experience writing code which exploits some of the most important Bluetooth LE security features.
How to Make Wearables Bluetooth Mesh Provisioners
In this step-by-step study guide, learn how to build an app on a smartwatch that can provision, configure, and control a Bluetooth® Mesh network. This study guide also introduces you to the most fundamental Bluetooth Mesh technical concepts and helps you learn about the mesh proxy node and proxy protocol in detail.
An Introduction to Bluetooth Beacons
This recently updated self-study guide looks at the theory and practice of developing Bluetooth® beacons and integrating them into existing products and applications, and new updates outline how to implement Swift on an iOS platform.
Discover more developer resources to help you build your Bluetooth product.
A New Bluetooth Standard Improves Personal Health Device Interoperability for Better Remote Patient Monitoring
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently published a set of specifications that standardizes…
Synthesize and Transmit Audio Using LE Audio
The application is assembled as a sound-generating device, the synthesizer, and a receiving headphone.…
Unveiling the Truth: Debunking Bluetooth’s Biggest Myth
Bluetooth Low Energy was designed to considerably reduce power consumption and cost while maintaining…
Bluetooth® Mesh Feature Enhancements Summary
This paper summarizes the recent Bluetooth® Mesh feature enhancements and provides references to other…
Bluetooth® Mesh Subnet Bridging - Technical Overview
This paper examines subnet bridging, a new feature introduced in the Bluetooth® Mesh protocol…
Bluetooth® Mesh Remote Provisioning - Technical Overview
This paper provides an overview of remote provisioning, a new Bluetooth® Mesh feature that…
Bluetooth® Mesh Private Beacons - Technical Overview
This paper examines private beacons, a type of beacon that can be used to…
Bluetooth® Mesh Directed Forwarding - Technical Overview
This paper provides an overview of directed forwarding, a new Bluetooth® Mesh feature that…
Bluetooth® Mesh Device Firmware Update - Technical Overview
This paper examines the new device firmware update (DFU) feature of Bluetooth® Mesh that…
The Latest in HADM with Bluetooth LE
HADM, or high accuracy distance measurement using Bluetooth does exactly what it says –…
Silicon Labs Bluetooth Low Energy Devices Now Support Bluetooth Core Specification 5.4
The release of Bluetooth® Core Specification Version 5.4 earlier this year was met with…
Mr. Beacon Podcast: Snapdragon Sound with Mike Canevaro
This episode of the Mr. Beacon Podcast explores the revolutionary world of Bluetooth audio.…
How Bluetooth Mesh and DALI Form a Digital Highway for Lighting Control and Data CollectionBluetooth MeshとDALIが形成する 照明制御とデータ収集の高速データ通信網
Bluetooth® technology and DALI® already have a long history of working together. But as…
Top 10 Auracast™ Resources
It’s been almost a year since the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released Auracast™…
Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking
Commercial and industrial applications like lighting require large-scale, low-power device networks where thousands of…
The Bluetooth® Low Energy Primer
Are you new to Bluetooth Low Energy? Learn about its constituent parts, features, and how it works.
Bluetooth® Technology for Linux Developers
Learn how to use the interprocess communication system D-Bus and the BlueZ APIs to create Bluetooth applications for Linux computers.
Designing and Developing Bluetooth® Internet Gateways
Learn about Bluetooth internet gateways, how to make them secure and scalable, and design and implement your own working prototype gateway and web application for use with either Bluetooth LE Peripherals or with Bluetooth mesh networks.
