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Blecon's Simon Ford shares how Bluetooth Low Energy redefined IoT by enabling low-cost, low-power devices to connect with smarter hosts. With features like LE Audio, does Bluetooth Classic still have a role?

Building a Bluetooth-enabled IoT device? Here’s a pro tip: monitor what you can’t see. Blecon’s Simon Ford explains how hidden issues—like high retry rates in Bluetooth communication—may not trigger alerts but can reveal critical insights about your device’s true performance.

Memfault co-founders François Baldassari and Christopher Coleman, along with Blecon CEO share why Nordic Semiconductor’s NRF52/53, built on Zephyr, is a standout choice.

Blecon’s Simon Ford takes us back to the origins of Bluetooth—reminiscing about coding BLE stacks in college and witnessing its rise from niche tech to a connectivity breakthrough. Did you know that making hands-free business calls in the car was the use-case that made Bluetooth a household name?

When should embedded device developers choose Bluetooth over Wi-Fi or cellular? Blecon’s CEO, Simon Ford, joins Memfault’s co-founders, François Baldassari and Christopher Coleman to explain why Bluetooth’s agility makes it perfect for IoT devices needing low-latency, energy-efficient communication.

You get a crash report: “App crashed on checkout page.” But you can’t reproduce it on your Pixel. Maybe it’s only happening on a Samsung device? Maybe it’s a memory issue? Or maybe the user was on a bad network? Now you’re stuck digging through logs, guessing at settings, and running the same scenario over and over in your emulator.

The Related Tab is a helpful tool that shows you other items related to the one you’re looking at. This makes it easier to see if the same issue is happening in different parts of your code base or if there are similar items that might be connected. Knowing this can help you understand if a problem is widespread or if there are other occurrences that could help you debug it quicker.

François and Chris are joined by Nick Sinas, CTO at Ovyl, to share their experience building OTA update systems for embedded and IoT devices.