• Should BLE (now called Bluetooth Smart) be the backbone of IoT?

    Bluetooth Smart (formerly Wibri and then BLE) is being positioned as the likely backbone of IoT device communications. But, it has some serious limitations that call that concept into question:

    1. It is a star bus type: one central node (today a smartphone…

  • Connected devices -- Estimating the number of IoT devices

    Nick Hunn, author and creator of the blog – Creative Connectivity, has a neat approach to

    determine the volume projections of IoT node devices (he focuses on Bluetooth Smart technology).

    His analysis forecasts a market value based on Bluetooth smart…

  • Bluetooth connection with ATBTLC1000-XPRO

    Hello all,

    I have access to both a SAMDA1-XPRO and a SAMC21-XPRO. I also have an ATBTCL1000-XPRO with which I need to establish a bluetooth connection to a smartphone. I powered up the ATBTLC1000-XPRO which was connected to the SAMC21-XPRO and tried locating…