LightBlue® vs Bluzone

LightBlue® by Punch Through® Your ultimate BLE debugging and development toolkit. Trusted by BLE developers and engineers since 2012 to scan, inspect, and troubleshoot Bluetooth Low Energy devices with precision. Scan For Peripherals  Discover, connect, and interact with nearby BLE devices. Quickly view advertising peripherals, sort by signal strength (RSSI), and connect with a single tap. Once connected, explore the device's advertisement data, services, and characteristics. Isolate SDK Issues  Simplify debugging by pinpointing issues in your BLE SDKs. LightBlue lets you isolate your app's business logic and focus on core tasks like connecting, scanning, reading, writing, and receiving notifications, built on years of BLE development experience and platform best practices. Mimic Your Devices  Prototype your application by creating virtual BLE peripherals. Build a profile from scratch or clone an advertising peripheral to mimic your product's functionality, even before your own firmware is ready. Key features: - Scan and discover BLE peripherals nearby - Browse services and characteristics in detail - Read, write, and subscribe to notifications and indications - Send data from notifications to AWS IoT or Adafruit IO via Cloud Connect - Write to characteristics in Hex, Octal, Binary, Decimal, or ASCII - Clone peripheral profiles or build your own from scratch - Advertise as a custom peripheral to simulate your device - Thoroughly log and share BLE events - Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android LightBlue started in 2012 as an internal tool. Punch Through built it to test and debug BLE devices while working on client projects. It worked well, so we shared it with the community. We've kept it free ever since. Today, LightBlue is used by solo developers and engineering teams alike, including inside some of the world's most respected tech and device companies.

The Bluzone app provides developers the means to provision, configure, and remotely monitor Bluvision Beacons and Blufi's. For use with Bluvision's bluzone.io This app enables remote beacon management from your device and is linked to Bluzone — Bluvision's cloud solution that allows for remote fleet, event and workflow management of your Bluvision beacons and BluFis (Bluvision's Bluetooth to WiFi gateways.) This app helps you: Provision Bluvision Devices: * Create and edit templates to be applied to your devices and keep your fleet properly configured. * Determine and manage the location of your devices * Upload and modify the image of a device (with an image 'Selfie') so you can easily recognize the beacon or BluFi * Know the status of your device(s) at a glance Receive real-time alerts when: * A user-defined policy is violated and get visibility into which beacon(s) are in violation [Note: The policies are defined by you or other users of your account.] * Get historical graphs for beacon's sensor data - temperature, light, and accelerometer values Scan and Identify nearby beacons: * Scan for beacons near use to provision * Identify beacons that have already been provisioned for (Shows you Provisioned beacons and Unknown beacons.) Note: This app only works with Bluvision Bluetooth Beacons and BluFi's. Sold separately Please note that your device needs to be Bluetooth 4.0 compatible. Supported Devices include: * iPhone 4s or Newer * iPod 5 generation or Newer.