SWRA475A January   2015  – October 2016 CC2540 , CC2540T , CC2541 , CC2541-Q1

 

  1.   Bluetooth low energy Beacons
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 What is a Beacon?
    3. 2 Bluetooth low energy and Bluetooth Smart
      1. 2.1 Non-Connectable Beacons
      2. 2.2 Connectable Beacons
      3. 2.3 Data Packet
      4. 2.4 Device Address
        1. 2.4.1 Flags
        2. 2.4.2 Manufacturer Specific Data
      5. 2.5 Broadcast Interval
      6. 2.6 Power
      7. 2.7 Range
      8. 2.8 Coexistence
    4. 3 Designing a Bluetooth low energy Beacon
      1. 3.1 Development Kits
      2. 3.2 Creating a Beacon Application With TI Bluetooth low energy-Stack
    5. 4 iBeacon Implementation
      1. 4.1 Overview and Prerequisites
      2. 4.2 Design and Implementation
      3. 4.3 Testing
    6. 5 Proprietary Implementation
      1. 5.1 Overview and Prerequisites
      2. 5.2 Design and Implementation
      3. 5.3 Testing
    7. 6 References
  2.   Revision History

2.2 Connectable Beacons

The connectable beacon is a Bluetooth low energy device in peripheral mode, which means that it can not only transmit, but receive as well. This allows a central device (for example, a smartphone) to connect and interact with services implemented on the beacon device. Services provide one or more characteristics that could be modified by a peer device. One example of these characteristics could be a string of data that represents the broadcasted information. This way, it is possible to have a configurable Beacon that is easily updated over the air.