A big update this week for our S110 SoftDevice. Full OTA DFU for SoftDevice and Application. Also Multi-acivity concurrency for Bluetooth Smart and 2.4GHz protocols. As Developers working with our products we're interested in your thoughts?
A big update this week for our S110 SoftDevice. Full OTA DFU for SoftDevice and Application. Also Multi-acivity concurrency for Bluetooth Smart and 2.4GHz protocols. As Developers working with our products we're interested in your thoughts?
Looking for clarifications on the v4.1 Bluetooth support ...
Does that mean two S110 devices can exchange data directly between eachother ?
ie. as described in http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/bluetooth-4-1-what-is-it-and-why-should-you-care
Improved Data Transfer Bluetooth 4.1 devices can act as both hub and end point simultaneously. This is hugely significant because it allows the host device to be cut out of the equation and for peripherals to communicate independently.
For example, whereas previously a smartwatch would need to talk to your phone to get data from a heart monitor, now the smartwatch and heart monitor can talk directly saving your phone’s battery and then upload their compiled results directly to your phone. This is crucial to the Internet of Things concept: peripherals become independent and can build their own networks before bringing the collation of all their data to you.
I have a question related to the feature mtsunstrum highlights above: Does the ability for peripheral devices to build there own network have any implications on power consumption? Seems like it could potentially take more power to have that capability.
Hi John,
We're evaluating the 7.0 SDK to migrate to. We're currently using 4.x and had to write things like our own flash storage routines, our own DFU routines, etc.
One thing that's particularly of interest for us is the concurrent Broadcast and Peripheral role.
The promised features sound awesome, as we were waiting for both (DFU & multi-activity concurrency for BLE & 2.4 GHz protocol).
Reg. DFU, can sbdy state the requirements?
Thanks!
Gazell is an example of a proprietary 2.4GHz protocol, but it's not the only one.