“Bluetooth Smart”. “Bluetooth Low Energy”.
These are phrases that have become increasingly common in recent years. Anyone working in a technology field has
probably used, or at least encountered, BLE technology in their day-to-day life. Whether wireless beacons that provide
additional wireless functionality, wearable fitness devices, smartwatches, or ‘smart lock’ technology, BLE surrounds
us.
Obviously, it becomes useful to be able to explore the BLE environment around you, or to be able to debug
your own BLE-enabled peripherals.
BlueSee aims to address this need; it provides a simple way to examine the
peripherals which are advertising around you, to connect to them, and explore the services they expose. It also
provides a simple method for extending BlueSee’s capabilities to custom BLE protocols, using the Lua scripting
language.
BlueSee is meant primarily for hardware developers who need a quick way to interact with prototype
devices for testing. However, it is also a useful tool for those who are merely curious about what their local BLE
environment is like.
There are a great many interesting things chattering between each other to be found in the
average office or home, after all!