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Air quality, Bluetooth, and IoT insights from Smart Sensor Devices

Explore updates, tutorials, product news and practical guidance on air quality monitoring, smart control, Bluetooth technology and connected sensing.

Send BLE data to cloud

In this article, we will see how to send BLE data to the cloud. Together with the BleuIO javascript library and BleuIO USB dongle, we will get BLE data from HibouAir. After getting the advertised data, we will pass it to a simple function that will give us an object with meaningful air quality data […]

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bleuio security

Make your Bluetooth Low Energy connection secure using BleuIO

Protection of private information is essential for every wireless low energy device, from fitness band to payment systems. Privacy mechanisms prevent devices from being tracked by untrusted devices. Secure communications keep data safe while also preventing unauthorized devices from injecting data to trigger the system’s unintended operation. In Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), devices connected to […]

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A new firmware update (v 1.2.0) has been released for BleuIO

Smart Sensor Devices is announcing a firmware update for Bleuio and Smart USB dongle 2.0. We invite all the users to apply the updated firmware. The new firmware will be available to download on 5th February 2021, at https://www.bleuio.com/getting_started/docs/firmware/ Firmware Update Improvements  It is now possible to access protected characteristics that need an increased security level.  […]

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Collect Realtime Data From Bluetooth Device

This project will show how to collect Realtime Bluetooth low energy data and show it on web browser. For this project, I am using Bluetooth Low Energy USB dongle called BlueIO, which will act as a central device to retrieve data. Hibou Air Quality Monitor which will serve as a peripheral device to transmit the […]

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Bluetooth Low Energy: What this technology has in store for the future

The term IoT or Internet of Things, is bringing new technologies to transform and make the world in the era of connectivity. The IoT says that everything is connected and Bluetooth has made it much easier to work. There are several names: Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth 4.0+ and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). We can say that […]

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Collect and export data from bluetooth devices

This project will show how to collect real-time BLE data and export as csv using web browser. For this project, I am using Bluetooth Low Energy USB dongle called BlueIO, which will act as a central device to retrieve data. Hibou Air Quality Monitor which will serve as a peripheral device to transmit the data. The script is […]

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Smart Sensor Devices Announces Global Distribution Agreement With Digi-Key Electronics

Smart Sensor Devices announces that its Bluetooth low energy USB dongle called BleuIO will be available for immediate shipment worldwide through Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, as a result of a new distribution agreement. The product is listed on Digikey and available for purchase. “Through our distribution partnership with Digi-Key we are making it easier […]

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BleuIO Javascript library available on npm

Bleuio Javascript library is available on npm(Node Package Manager). Now you can easily access all the BleuIO functions from web browser. Before starting to install our library, make sure you have Chrome 78 or later version installed on your system. You will also need to enable the #enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag in chrome://flags.To do that, Open chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features in Google Chrome browser and […]

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BleuIO library available on PyPI

Bleuio Python library is available on PyPI (the Python Package Index) to simplify the life of Python developers. Before starting to install our library, make sure your you have the latest python installed on your system. If you have never installed a library from PyPI, you must install the pip tool enabling you to download […]

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Sending and receiving data between two Bluetooth dongle

In this project, we will demonstrate how two Bluetooth dongles can be paired together and share data between them. To pair two Bluetooth dongle, one of them needs to be configured as Central and other needs to be configured as Peripheral. We already wrote a Python script that sends data back and forth between dongles. […]

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