Making Bluetooth Smarter

A lightning talk about hacking Bluetooth Low Energy in Seed Labs given at CocoaHeads Kraków #15

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1. Product description – October 2014 Michał Ciuba Making Bluetooth smarter
2. Seed empowers manufacturers in making their products intelligent and connected. We use Bluetooth Smart (a.k.a. Low Energy) and consider it a game-changer in IoT connectivity. Seed —who we are 01 | Seed connectivity
3. Bluetooth Smart as we know it Point-to-point communication 02 | Seed Wearables, iBeacons Direct communication, routers or hubs not needed Low power usage
4. We made Bluetooth even smarter Many-to-many communication (usage from many mobile devices at the same time) 03 | Seed Groups and scenes Public and private mode, sharing access to devices
5. How we did it 04 | Seed • Seed hardware module • Our own protocol built on top of Bluetooth Smart • We don't keep connection open connect -> write -> disconnect immediately • We don't use Bluetooth pairing / bonding • We use custom payload in advertisement packets • We use CoreBluetooth in iOS app
6. What's next 06 | Seed • Seed rapid prototyping kit for manufacturers so they can build connected products without knowing Bluetooth Smart • iOS SDK • We have joined Apple HomeKit program recently
7. Thank you! Michał Ciuba 07 | Seed Check our app: seedlabs.io/ios michal.ciuba@seedlabs.io @MichalCiuba