Receiving the data via updates

- [Instructor] So now we've seen…how to read data from the device manually.…We used a timer to do it every five seconds,…however if the data doesn't change for a long time,…this can be unnecessary and inefficient,…especially for battery life of both devices.…Imagine that the device is in a dark room…and the light doesn't change for a long time,…then someone walks in, and suddenly the light changes,…that's when we care about the new value.…If we can have a situation where the peripheral…updates the manager with the new value…only when it changes, that would be ideal.…

And that's possible for some characteristics.…You can set the notify value to be true,…and only when the value change will the central be updated.…However, it always does depend…on the specific implementation of the device you're using.…In our case for the sensor tag,…the light sensor updates still come in at a timed interval.…But if we look at the documentation,…we can see that there are other characteristics…that have the notification permission.…