Bluetooth Low Energy

I was told this week that the Bluetooth Low Energy Developers Handbook has been published.  You can buy the book now on Amazon at the following link: LINK. 

So what's the big deal with Bluetooth Low Energy?  Well, from my perspective, it enables deeply embedded devices a way to expand their processing powers by taking advantage of someones smart phone processing power.  It is the first standard that allows us to have data exchange with the newer Apple mobile devices.  Data exchange was possible with Bluetooth Classic in the past but you had to have a Made for iOS (MFi) chip in order to be granted licensing with Apple.  Well with the Bluetooth Low Energy devices this is no longer the case. 

Other suppliers of consumer software and hardware are jumping on board as well, but there seems to be some controversy.  I know a lot of people are frustrated with Google and not saying if/when a unified standard will be coming out for Bluetooth Low Energy.  I love checking out the post on this subject, it gets more and more hits every day. The OEMs are also struggling to find out how to incorporate Bluetooth Low Energy.  Motorola seems to understand that there customers want this and so they created an API to support devices but it is not a unified API that can be used by the Android community. 

In my opinion we need Bluetooth Low Energy support on all mobile devices.  It makes it very valuable for the embedded devices I work in on a daily basis.  We can then use the mobile smart phones that have this technology in them to offload the processor, data management, and network routing.  Most new smart phones coming out have the hardware to support Bluetooth Low Energy, but yet it appears the software on both the Android and Windows platforms that seems late to the party.  Hopefully they can catch up.

Do you see Bluetooth Low Energy as useful for your applications?