Getting Started
Beacon Calibrated RSSI value
The Beacons have a default calibrated RSSI set to -54dBm. To this value, the Advertising Frame Power has to be added. For example, if the Advertising Power is set to -8dBm, the total power will be -62dBm. Or if the Advertising Power is +4dBm, the ...
How to create a BlueBeacon Cloud account?
To create a BlueBeacon Cloud account, please open a ticket from the portal or write an email to support@blueupbeacons.com indicating "BlueBeacon Cloud account" as the subject and specifying in the email text the following information: 1) Company Name ...
Radio TX Power vs Advertised TX Power
Radio TX Power is the strength of the transmitted signal (in dBm). For our beacons it goes from -40 to +4 dBm. The Radio TX Power impacts on the transmission distance: the higher the Radio TX Power, the longer the distance. The Advertised TX Power is ...
BlueUp Beacons Configuration
BlueBeacon beacons are shipped with the following default settings: Slot 1, 2, 3, 4: Not Configured (i.e. not enabled). Slot 5: iBeacon (UUID = ACFD065E-C3C0-11E3-9BBE-1A514932AC01, major = 0, minor = S/N, ADV interval = 400 msec, TX power = -8dBm). ...
Advertising Frames Configuration
It is possible to configure up to 8 slots for non-connectable (ADV_NONCONN_IND) advertising frames, with the following properties: 4 slots are dedicated to Eddystone frames, and can be configured as URL, UID, TLM and/or EID (with more slots ...
BLE-beacon supported technologies
The following technologies are supported simultaneously: the two main technologies for proximity-beacons for mobile applications, iBeacon and Eddystone, together with a technologies for RTLS BLE tags, Quuppa. This is the first worldwide firmware to ...
Beacons ranging accuracy
Ranging with beacons is based on the value of RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), i.e., the value of the RF signal received by your smartphone. The received signal is strongly affected by several parameters, such as the relative orientation ...
Compatibility
BlueBeacon devices are compatible with all mobile operating systems, supporting Bluetooth Low Energy: iOS (7.0 and later, for CoreLocation iBeacon support), Android (4.3 and later), Windows Phone 10. iBeacon is not only for Apple devices. iBeacon ...
Quuppa technology
Quuppa Intelligent Locating System is a proprietary powerful technology platform for novel location based services and applications. It enables real-time tracking of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) smart tags, beacons and devices, with accuracy even down ...
Eddystone specifications
Eddystone is an open beacon format from Google for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. The Eddystone specification includes a number of broadcast frame types: UID, URL, TLM. The Eddystone-UID frame broadcasts an opaque, unique 16-byte Beacon ID ...
iBeacon technology
iBeacon is the trademark for an indoor positioning system developed by Apple Inc. This system enables a smartphone or other device (e.g. tablet) to receive a transmitted signal and perform actions when in close proximity to a device (beacon) that ...
Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
A BLE beacon is a wireless device that periodically broadcasts a Bluetooth Low Energy advertising packet, that is received by a smartphone and used to determine the position relative to the beacon itself. This allows to provide "context-aware" ...
What is a beacon
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A classical example of beacon is the lighthouse, used in navigation, that helps navigators find their destination. In electronics, a beacon is a ...