Mobile Personal Information Exchange Over BLE

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), sometimes referred to as “Bluetooth Smart”, is an emerging ultra-low power wireless technology developed for efficient data transfers to small devices with limited battery life. Today most of the smartphones are enabled with BLE. Mobile identity applications allow people to use a mobile phone as a form of secure digital identity (ID) card for identification purposes. In this paper, we present a novel transferring method for identity data such as electronic passport or other identification document data between two mobile devices, i.e. mobile identity holder and reader, over a BLE channel and propose the definition of a new GATT (Generic Attributes) profile suitable for mobile identity applications. Using the proposed approach we show that BLE based process simplifies and speeds up mobile identity data exchange for multiple use cases.