Connect a BLE device to Android and send data to AWS IoT

This app is part of the Activity Recognition project, it demonstrates how to use the Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) to transmit data from a BLE connected device to AWS IoT.

Technologies

• Android Studio
• Amazon Web Services IoT
• Amazon Web Services DynamoDB

Be careful: for this project we have used free trial periods (12 months for AWS IoT/DynamoDB), after that period you have to pay for them.

Screenshots

How to use

Follow these steps to run the app:

• Import the app on Android Studio.
• Change private static final String CUSTOMER_SPECIFIC_IOT_ENDPOINT = "YOUR_ENDPOINT"; in the AWSServiceClient.java file with your AWS IoT Endpoint.
• Change final String topic = "YOUR_TOPIC"; in the AWSServiceClient.java with the name of your topic.
• Change

    "PoolId": "YOUR_POOLID",
    "Region": "YOUR_REGION"

in the res/raw/awsconfiguration.json file with your PoolID and Region values.

• Build and Run the app.

For further information about these steps see the GitHub and Hackster.io of the project.

References

Contacts

• Andrea Napoletani
• Alessandro Giannetti
• Riccardo Pattuglia

Useful Links

• GitHub project page
• Hackster blog post

Feel free to contact us for further information!