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IoT Fundamentals: Build your first project with BLE Beacons

Name: IoT Fundamentals: Build your first project with BLE Beacons
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Everything you need to know about BLE/iBeacon Technology + A full IoT Project (Smart Museum)!

Created bySakib Shahriar, Ayesh Towheed

Last updated 7/2019

English

What you'll learn

A complete Internet of Things (IoT) based project
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons
iBeacons
Node js
Ionic Framework
Android Application
Messaging Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
Integrating a mobile application with a backend server
Android Studio Debugging

Course content

7 sections • 42 lectures • 3h 27m total length

Introduction1:51

What enabled Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons ?1:04
Learn about the history behind Bluetooth Technology that enabled BLE beacon protocols such as iBeacons and Eddystone. This technology can be used to implement any Internet of Things (IoT) Project.
History of BT that enabled BLE Beacons
So What can a BLE Beacon do ?1:06
Okay, you have learned some history about beacons in the previous video but what exactly can they do?
Applications of BLE Beacons5:13
In this lecture we present some of the sectors where BLE Beacons can be deployed. Although we can technically deploy beacons in any location depending on our application, this lecture will show the potential of beacons.
Summary: Applications of BLE Beacons0:50
BLE Beacons Applications
What Do Beacons Transmit?2:20
In the previous videos you have learned that BLE Beacons continuously transmit data. However, we did not define what this data is yet. So, in this video we explain a Beacon packet and what it transmits.
Example: What Do Beacons Transmit?1:17
Just to make things clear from the previous lecture, we give an example of how the information from a BLE Beacon packet can be used.
BLE Beacon Packet
BLE Beacon Hardware: What’s inside a BLE beacon?0:57
The previous lectures explained what the BLE Beacons transmit. However it is important to know the physical components that make up the BLE Beacons. In this lecture, the major components of BLE Beacons are presented.
Advantages of using BLE Beacons in IoT Projects1:20
Okay we learned everything about BLE Beacons, but why should we use them? What are the key advantage of this technology? Learn in this video.
Summary0:30
This lecture summarizes the section

BLE Beacons Manufacturers3:43
To purchase your first beacons you need to know what are the different companies that produce them. This video will introduce to you the popular beacon providers.
BLE Beacon Providers
Order your beacons from Estimote2:47
You learned in the previous videos about different companies like Blue cats, Kontakt.io and Estimote. In this video we demonstrate how you can order the BLE Beacons to work on the course project.
Summary0:25
This provides a summary of this section

A Simplified Definition of IoT1:02
Definitions can be confusing. In this lecture, we try to simplify the concept of IoT and then build upon this in the next lecture to provide more details.
IoT Further Explained1:17
After a simple introduction, this lectures adds further theoretical background to explain the concept of IoT.
Examples of IoT Applications3:03
Sometimes, definitions are not sufficient to explain a topic. In this video, we go through an article to see the real life uses of IoT that further helps to visualise the IoT concept and appreciate this emerging field.
IoT Stack1:37
The IoT stack closely resembles the TCP/IP stack or the OSI model which we all know. It represents the various communication stages of the internet and the different protocols it uses. Similarly, IoT applications have their own set of protocols for communication some of which are the same as the TCP/IP stack and some of them are not.
MQTT introduction0:44
The previous lecture explained IoT stack and one of the common protocols used was MQTT, which stands for Message Queueing Telemetry Transport. Its a very simple communication protocol which uses publish/subscribe as its standard.
MQTT Example2:05
This lecture explains the concept of the previous lecture about MQTT by providing a well defined example.
Android Studio & Visual Studio Code0:37
Summary0:30
This lecture concludes the IoT section and provides a summary of the course so far.

Introduction4:36
First Ionic Project15:35
Set up and run your Ionic project to build cross platform apps with Ionic Angular. Learn to install Node and npm, create a blank project, and test in the browser.
Adding the iBeacon Plugin1:06
Ionic3/Angular Project Structure8:04
Getting the Plugin Skeleton0:28
iBeacon Plugin and Estimote Cloud10:02
iBeacon Objects and Android Studio Debugging5:47
Adding Local Notifications9:03
Ranging Beacons 110:44
Ranging Beacons 27:57
Ranging Beacons 38:20
Demonstrates using angular zone to trigger immediate user interface updates as beacon proximity changes, by wrapping beacon ranging in zone.run and starting region monitoring.
Museum Item Pages7:17

First MQTT Client7:17
Build your first mqtt client to publish museum sensor data, such as temperature and ambient lighting, to a broker and stream updates to app users via the museum status topic.
Node.js Server and MQTT15:03
Build a Node.js server to read BLE beacons with node-beacon-scanner, set up a Bluetooth dongle, and process type B telemetry packets while mapping short identifiers to beacons.
Testing the Server6:37
Adding MQTT to Ionic9:03
Learn to add MQTT to an Ionic app, publish enter messages to a museum entry topic, subscribe to it, and maintain a crowd count that increments on region entry.
Integrating Crowd Count Status11:06
Testing Our Progress3:27

Museum Guide Interface17:25
Create a museum guide interface with Ionic alerts and publish-subscribe messaging to notify guides when visitors need help via museum help, and reflect busy status via museum help confirm.
Museum Guide Interface 2 and Final Result13:40
Test and finalize your IoT museum guide app, with beacon proximity and museum status checks. Monitor crowd counts and test request help via live updates.
Changing The App Icon/Splashscreen0:37

Requirements

Basic Javascript and HTML knowledge is preferred but not necessary.

Description

PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE IS NOT ACTIVELY MAINTAINED ANYMORE. What this means is that there will be no more QnA, updated libraries etc. However, the libraries and techniques used in the course are still relevant and you will have to do your own research to use the same techniques with updated libraries. If you are only interested and curious about learning how beacons work and how to interface with them, you may still go ahead and buy the course, just beware that the libraries are 2 years old and there might be newer libraries that you could use.

Have you wondered what all the hype surrounding beacons is about? What are they exactly, how do they function?

Are you also an IoT enthusiast like us, wondering what the next shift in IoT is going to look like?

Well then you're in luck, this course is designed to introduce you to the whole beacon technology and the core concepts of it. Anyone from any background is welcome to take this course for a better understanding of IoT and BLE beacons. Usually, when it comes to IoT projects, microcontrollers like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP-32 comes to mind. However, we will introduce iBeacons or BLE Beacons. Beacons have revolutionized the IoT industry with their endless use cases and applications being deployed all around the world. Unfortunately, many people have not even heard of this cutting edge technology which could be being used in their local malls!

What we teach you in the course?

Very Simply, the most excited you should be is for you to get to build your very first IoT project with beacons (We know we are excited to teach you).

Well, we start off with introducing you to the concepts and core of beacon technology, and IoT in general.

We help you to order you very own kit of beacons from Estimote. We then take you through a complete IoT project, a smart museum, from start to finish with well known IoT technologies and protocols like MQTT and BLE.

As an added bonus, you will also get introduced to web technologies like-

Ionic Framework
Very Basic Angular Concepts
and Node.js

These frameworks and technologies are a rage in the industry right now! Ionic is growing in popularity all over the world as one of the best cross platform development frameworks. Node.js well, you know its importance. Also in addition to these you will not use them for traditional web apps but instead deploy a full featured IoT Application using them, importing libraries for MQTT and iBeacon, and trust me when I tell you, no one is doing this right now!

You will also get introduced to Android Studio environment, very minimally but nonetheless important.

Lastly, our aim is to get you to think "IoT". By the end of the course you should be feeling excited to move on and create apps/systems for your very own IoT based ideas, or at least you will definitely start thinking of ideas if you don't have a few already.

The course has no great pre-requisites except maybe a simple understanding of JavaScript or Programming languages is preferred but not necessary, so what are you waiting for, go ahead and START YOUR OWN JOURNEY IN IOT!

Who this course is for:

Internet of Things (IoT) enthusiasts who are curious to learn about BLE Beacon technology
Students who are interested in building IoT applications
Anyone looking to create a cool, fancy project in no time
The JavaScript enthusiasts who want an IoT project but without anything other than JavaScript

IoT Fundamentals: Build your first project with BLE Beacons

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons9 lectures • 15min

How to Get Your First Set of BLE Beacons3 lectures • 7min

An Introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT)8 lectures • 11min

Course Project -> Ionic12 lectures • 1hr 29min

Course Project -> Node.js & MQTT6 lectures • 53min

Course Project -> Museum Guide App3 lectures • 32min

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