BLE / iOS Framework for App Developers

Bluetooth LE (BLE) is a great choice for low data rate communications where low power is also important. Newer Apple devices now support this protocol and there have been a lot of great products leveraging this capability. We decided to dig into it as well and have just completed development of an external accessory that uses BLE. The accessory implements a button interface and sends events to an app. The goal we had set for ourselves in this development was to create a low power accessory that maintained responsiveness. The key to achieving low power is to keep your accessory in a low power state as much as possible. For responsiveness you need the accessory to wake-up quickly and get the message through without delay. We are pleased with the results. Since we intend to leverage this development on several projects we have wrapped up our code into a custom iOS framework. This is our first accessory design and we have plans to add others to fulfill our own product roadmap. We’re interested in knowing if other developers or companies may be interested in leveraging our development/framework for an existing or future app. If you want to learn more - please leave a comment and we’ll contact you.