Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM

Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by jimiasty on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:05PM (#12355256)

Hi HN, this is Jakub, founder of Estimote, Inc. (YC S13).

We just released a new revision of our Location Beacons. We implemented new, low power Nordic nRF52 chip and extended range to 200 metres (+10dB).

Beacons can simultanously advertise both iBeacon and Eddystone packets as well as telemetry & sensor data + they have built-in GPIO slot.

There is also 1Mb EEPROM, so you can read/write data directly in the beacon.

You can read more on our blog: http://blog.estimote.com/post/149362004575/updated-location-...

I will be more than happy to answer any questions here.

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Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by scartracs on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @09:21PM (#12356370)

My power is out so I can't browse too much atm. I vaguely remember the Google beacon being a always-on notification that launched a website link pressed. How well does that work in android and iOS? Would it be feasible to make an "SOS help" beacon and expect every phone nearby to be notified or similarly spammed with an ad message?

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Re:Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM by erichocean on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:54AM (#12360029)

I wish they were actually programmable. The available programmable BLE hardware is a bit clunky (I'm using stuff from RedBearLabs currently).

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