Hi, I'm Mohammad Afaneh. I've been developing embedded software and firmware since 2006. I've worked at and consulted for multiple large companies including Allegion (Schlage locks), Motorola, Technicolor, Audiovox, and Denon & Marantz Group. Throughout my career, I've worked on multiple IoT (Internet of Things) products including wireless electronic door locks, satellite receivers, wireless doorbells, and various other side projects. My interest in Bluetooth Low Energy sparked back in 2014. When I first started learning about BLE and how to develop applications on the embedded side, I spent hours, days, and weeks just researching and reading everything I could find on the topic. The learning curve was steep and going through the Bluetooth specification document was utterly frustrating! It’s true for many other technologies, but I found that many of the resources and books on BLE leave a huge gap when going from theory to practice. I would learn something interesting about BLE from the specification, but then find out that using it and implementing it for a given platform was very disconnected from what I read. In July 2015, I decided to leave my full-time job to start my own company Novel Bits, LLC to focus solely on helping developers learn BLE technology without having to go through the pains I went through. I do this by providing tutorials on my website (www.novelbits.io), via on-site training sessions, and e-books, all of which are focused on Bluetooth Low Energy development.
