Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon at a glance
Tiny Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon
- Small and light: 30mm diameter, 10mm thickness, 7 grams
- Long time operation on CR2032: 18 months (30 year shelf life)
- Long range: 75 Meters with up to 120 Meters at max power
- Secure: Immune to wireless attacks
- Weatherproof enclosure with option on custom tooling
- Support of all major beacon standards
- Certified: FCC/IC/CE
The picture shows a small, weather-proof Bluetooth Low Energy beacon suitable for mass deployment. The device can advertise ID and sensor data. This Bluetooth Low Energy beacon offers the best battery lifetime and range for any available coin-cell operated beacon on the market today. The Bluetooth Low Energy beacon can be used with the free App (iOS and Android versions) and is compatible with all Bluetooth Smart Ready devices.
The push-button can be used to cycle through different beaconing modes. Modes for high performance and long battery life are available. The modes will help with a battery life of 2 month to 30 years on a coin cell:
- Sleep Mode with over 30 years of shelf life
- ID Mode advertises UUID, Major ID, and Minor ID, and achieves up to 2 months battery life
- ID low power mode beacons ID information with 18 months typical battery life
- Sensor mode broadcasts sensor data such as battery voltage, temperature, and button presses with 18 months typical battery life
- Dual mode is activated for ID and Sensor functionality simultaneously and achieves a 9 month typical battery life
- Any mode can be locked for final deployment
On top this Bluetooth Low Energy beacon can be delivered in any quantity with guaranteed unique ID numbers. A unique serial number is printed on the label and encoded in a QR code for optical scanning. An optional NFC tag is also available for easy identification.
Unlike most other beacons on the market today, the beacon can’t be hacked. The beacons come pre-programmed with a uniquely defined UUID, Major ID and Minor ID and cannot be re-programmed wirelessly.
The Bluetooth Low Energy beacon is FCC, IC, and CE certified, RoHS, Reach, and halogen free compliant.
The beacon can be customized for individual deployments with the development kit. The kit contains a programmer interface board, cable, and 5 Bluetooth Low Energy beacons for re-programming. The programming tools are available separately on request.
Bluetooth Low Energy features
- Weatherproof Enclosure
- Size: 30mm x 10mm disk; Weight: 7 grams
- Replaceable CR2032 3V Li battery
- Integrated push-button with LED indicators
- Accessories
- Wall-mount
- Key-fob
- Wrist-band
Multi-mode beaconing with Bluetooth Low Energy beacon
- Sensor packet format includes battery voltage, temperature, packet count and push-button count
- ID packet format includes UUID, Major ID, and Minor ID
- Compatible with common beacon standards
Long Range on Bluetooth Low Energy
- Over 75 m line-of-sight at 0 dBm output power
Applications for the Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon
- Customer Experience Enhancement
- Stores, malls, airports, museums, theme parks, sports arenas, conferences, exhibits, festivals
- Proximity, electronic leash applications
- Push notifications, alerts
- Passive data collection
- Battery, temperature monitoring
Mounting accessory
You have the freedom to select from three different kind of mounting brackets.
Wall-mount for the BLE beacon
Wall mounted bracket
The wall mount bracket gives you the freedom to assemble the Bluetooth Low Energy beacon to the wall, laptop, bicycle, skies or whatever you like. After de-mounting you can replace the CR2032 battery easy.
Key-fob for the BLE beacon
BLE key fob
The key-fob is based on the same principle. The plastic ring clasps around the beacon and fix it to your keys.
Wrist-band for the BLE beacon
BLE beacon at wristband
The mounting bracket for the wrist-band gives you the freedom from standard bracelet on the market
Customised bracket for the BLE beacon
If you like you can design your customised brackets by 3D print easy. Printing is for such small pieces of plastic not to expensive.
If you have an interest in an evaluation kit with 5 Beacons , then do not hesitate to drop an email to harald.naumann (at) gsm-modem.
Hi Harald, This looks to be exactly what I am looking for. Please let me know how to organise an evaluation kit. Many thanks, Mark
Hi Mark I will come back by email to you.
Please send me a quote for the evaluation kit.
P.S.
The captcha on this form is rather ridiculous as I had to refresh about 10 times (3 of which didn’t have any characters whatsoever) to get one that I as a literate human could actually read.
Hi Daniel, you will find an offer your inbox. You are right, after update the captcha got difficult. I will have look if there is an option to make it simpler. However, without captcha a WordPress blog will get swaped by automatic user registations.
The beacon you describe will work perfectly with an application I have created. How can I get my hands on a few (5-10) to work with. Thanks for your help.
Please send more details, interested in eval kit, thank you
We are in need of a BLE Beacon supplier for the conference industry. Please contact us for an upcoming event where 30,000 pieces are required and if you are interested in this opportunity. We are already the leader in the RFID market for conferences and are looking to move this to the BLE technology.
Hi Christhopher, sorry for delay. You will find an offer in your inbox. Please note that I can help with customised BLE beacons or and other kind of customised wireless product as well.
Best regards from Germany
Harald
Hi Martin you found an offer in your inbox as well.
BR from sunny Germany
Harald
Hi Burt, the beacons made a lot of customers happy. If you have a budget then do not hestiate to ask for a customiised wireless solution.
Best regards
Harald
Hi, can I get the quote for the kit?
Thanks and regards,
HI,
I am impressed by the description and the variety of the product. Can I receive the quote for the kit?
Thanks and regards
Does the API let you connect and communicate with a central BLE device, not just advertise? Does the API allow you to measure RSSI at the device?
Thanks
Does the API allow the device to connect to a central BLE device, beyond just advertising? Does the API allow reading RSSI from the device itself?
Thanks
Juan, the beacon will advertise the power level – if you like and select it. RSSI you get at the smart phone. A standard beacon is a transmitter only.
Juan, the beacon will advertise the power level – if you like and select it. RSSI you get at the smart phone. A standard beacon is a transmitter only.
Dear Aahana, yoou will find an offer in your email inbox. I wish you and your team a nice weekend.
Regards
Harald
Hi,
Can I please get a quote for the evaluation kit.
Thanks,
Sagar
Your ibeacons sound great.
The problem is that I need them to fit inside a metal tube of 27.2mm diameter. Do you have any that can do that?
Hi Simeon, there are no problems, but just solutions. I have the world smallest BLE module with 8 mm x 8 mm 1 x mm including the antenna. Are you able to write code or at least able to upload code on a ARM Cortex MCU by Seeger interface? Nevertheless if you have a budget then I can take care on an HW design with the battery which will fit in the metal tube. Do not hesitate to drop an email to harald . naumann (at) gsm- modem .de
Hi Sagar, you will find an offer in your inbox.
Hi,
Can you provide pricing for evaluation kit(s) and pricing on qty orders.
Thank you
Kevin
Hi Kevin, you will find an offer in your email inbox.
Hi, I need a custom solution for my project. Can you send me few samples, so I can checkout the beacons. If the project is successful , we forecast high volume purchase.
Hi Joseph, you will find an offer in your email inbox.
Hello,
I am very interested in this product. Can you please send me pricing information for an evaluation kit?
Thanks
Hi Selam, you will find an offer in your inbox.
Hi Harald,
I checked my inbox, also in my spam, but I can’t find your email. My email is SelamYihun@gmail.com. Can you possibly resend me the quote to that address?
Thanks,
Selam Yihun
Hi Harald,
I just wanted to enquire about this push button ibeacon.
Our software is for loyalty applications for retail.
We would like to test using your push-button ibeacon and integrate it into our software so that everytime a customer comes into a shop, the shop owner can push the button and add reward points using your ibeacon.
Can you supply quote for evaluation kit please
Many thanks
Hi Andy, you will find an email in your inbox. Please be so kind and use the standard version of the beacon and ask my team for a beacon which will transmit by button press only. The standard version will transmit all the time and the message will include the value of the counter as well. With each button press the counter will increase by one. If you transmit by button press only then the coin cell will run “endless”. The self-discharge will maybe higher than the current to run the MCU. However, as soon it is up and running I can think about to offer it with partners on the German market.
Hi Harald,
I checked my inbox, also in my spam, but I can’t find your offer email. My email is SelamYihun@gmail.com. Please let me know if there are any issues that are preventing you from sending out the quote. We are trying to use your beacon technology to support a telematics project for a Fortune 100 insurance company in the United States. If it is a successful project, the volume of purchase will be plentiful, if not slightly overwhelming.
Thanks,
Selam Yihun
I am interested in an evaluation kit, please let me know the details, we are interested in using these in a sporting activity to track athletes along a course
Hi Todd, you will find an offer in your email inbox.
Hello Harald,
I’m interested in a few of these, too. The use case is home automation, but I do not need any customization.
Do you sell small packs (3-5) of these iBeacons with a pre-programmed UUID?
You can contact me in german.
Regards,
Felix
Hi Felix, you will an offer in your inbox.
Hi Harald
Please can you send me a quote for your evaluation kit?
Regards,
Charlotte
Hi Harald
Please can you send me a quote and other details for your evaluation kit?
Regards,
Charlotte
Hi Charlotte, you will find an offer in your email inbox.
Best regards
Harald
Hi Herald,
we want to sell this beacon in bundle with our smart home system. We need to get movements when detected, battery status and temperature periodically. Please send me a quote for your evaluation kit and customizing options.
Kindly regards,
Vito
Hi Harald,
Can you send me the details and an offer of the evaluation kit?
Thanks
Sander
Hi,
Can you provide pricing for evaluation kit(s) and pricing on qty orders.
Thank you
Hi Drash, you will find an offer in your inbox.
Hi Sander, you will get an offer by email.
Dear Vira, you will find an offer in your inbox soon.
Dear Harald,
Can you send me some additional information and an offer for the evaluation kit?
Regards,
Stefan
Hi Stefan, I asked my SMTP server to forward my email with the offer as fast as possible to you 😉
I would like to invite you to listen to my speech at Embedded World Conference 2017, 14-16 March 2017:
“Comparison of LPWAN like SIGFOX, LoRaWAN, Weightless P and NB-IoT/LTE-Cat-NB1”
http://www.embedded-world.eu/program.html 14 March 2017 – 09:30 – 12:30 Session 03/I Connectivity – Wireless Technologies I
I hope to meet you in Nuremberg.
Regards
Harald
Kindly send me a quote for 100 beacons with eddystone support. How to configure the beacons you supply ? And what is the lifetime of the beacons and can the battery be replaced ?
Thanks
Nilay
How to configure the beacons you supply ?
A: The details you will get by email.
And what is the lifetime of the beacons
A: In comparison to other beacons it is very long and the absolute lifetime is dynamic on settings
and can the battery be replaced ?
A: Yes, it can be replaced
You will find an offer in your email inbox.
These beacons seems to be the size I am looking for. I would like some additional info and test asap. Thank you!
Hi Jamie, you will find an offer in your inbox. If your search on my blog for beacon then you will find a lot of details about this BLE beacon. I already analysed the antenna shape as well.