Ellisys Launches Bluetooth Education Series

Ellisys introduced the Expert Education Series — a collection of educational articles, videos and podcasts discussing various facets of interconnect technologies.

The first course is titled: The Many Communication Modes of Bluetooth LE and it is separated into several chapters. Click here to read the first chapters.

Background
Bluetooth technology first arrived in the world way back in the year 2000. The newer, more energy-efficient variant, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), was released about ten years later and has become very well established, featuring as it does in an enormous number of products.
Bluetooth LE is well known as the wireless communication technology that lets your phone connect to your activity tracker and synchronize data repeatedly throughout the day, all without any noticeable impact on the battery level of either device. Efficient communication that involves frugal use of energy was one of the primary goals that were pursued in designing Bluetooth LE, and it’s fair to say that it delivers well on that goal.
As end users of such products, we’re accustomed to the connect, exchange data, disconnect sequence that Bluetooth LE uses, and we talk casually about our devices connecting (or occasionally, not connecting when we’re having problems!).
But did you know that a connection is a specific technical state and that connection-oriented communication is just one of several communication modes that Bluetooth LE can use?
In this article, we’ll introduce each of the communication modes and look more closely at each of them in subsequent articles. >>Continue reading>>