Specifications

Bluetooth

Supported by AVEVA Mobile Operator

Remarks

Version

- Version 2.x (with EDR support)

- Version 4.x (only if both the mobile and peripheral devices are Bluetooth Smart Ready)

Not supported:

For v4.x, source code will require changes, if the peripheral device is Bluetooth Smart and the mobile device is Bluetooth Smart Ready

Profiles

Serial Port Profile (SPP)

Feature

Supported by AVEVA Mobile Operator

Remarks

Device discovery and pairing (Mandatory)

General/Limited discoverable mode

Ensure that the peripheral device has a static MAC address, and allows discovery and pairing

Peripheral devices that support Bluetooth version 2.x allow discovery, pairing, and connection process

Connection (Mandatory)

Ensure that the peripheral device allows connection establishment from the mobile device

Not supported:

- Peripheral devices that send advertising packets to provide basic information for connection

- Peripheral devices that only transmit data without allowing any connection process

Session establishment (Optional)

Establish a session and set properties for the session

Supported

Multiple models (Optional)

Multiple models may exist for the same peripheral device to provide different set of data. For example, different models for different temperature ranges

Identification of the model used in the round could be based on the advertisement/data packets sent by the peripheral device

Supported only for peripheral device model identification based on data packet parsing

Not supported:

Peripheral device model identification based on advertising packets

Data transfer mechanisms

- Command/response

- Broadcast

Not supported:

Peripheral device data transfer without connections using advertising packets

Triggering mechanism (for peripheral devices that support command/response data transfer)

Manually trigger the peripheral device to collect data or send commands from the mobile device, and to instruct the peripheral device to start collecting data

Supported

Endianness support for the commands

Big endian

Custom commands creation

Customize commands sent to the peripheral device on runtime based on other parameters. For example, generate commands based on input/data settings

Not supported

Command/data encoding format

- UTF8

- HEX

(Source code will require changes to switch based on the declared type in the Peripheral Information XML)

Not supported:

- Octal

- UTF-16

Support to transition the peripheral to park/sleep/hold /active modes by sending commands

Not supported

Data command encryption and fault detection techniques (like CRC)

Not supported

Data parsing

Parse data received from the peripheral device

Parsing data based on the offset and the length of the data in the packet. (Configurable)

Delimiter based parsing

Parsing and deriving multiple field values

Supported

Large data and complex types

- Data up to 1024 bytes (retrieving data more than that needs to be analyzed for performance issues)

- Primitive data types (string, number, and datetime)

Not supported:

Complex types