Figure 3-2. Main Routine Flow Chart
3.1
Configuring and Starting the Advertisement Process
The Bluetooth Low Energy devices transmit advertisement packets to show their presence to nearby
devices. The advertisement packet is sent periodically at a time interval defined by variable
“
advinterval
” defined in Bluetooth SIG specification. To avoid any collision with other wireless network
such as Wi-Fi
®
, a channel change is performed for each advertisement packet sent (data frequency
hopping), as illustrated in the following figure.
Figure 3-3. Advertisement Process
During advertisement, the payload structure to be sent differs from application to application and is set by
using encapsulated packet data unit type information (
PDU_TYPE
).
ATBTLC1000
Establishing Connection with Central Device
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