General Description

Beacon is a broadcast protocol based on a low-power Bluetooth protocol, and it is also a low-power Bluetooth device (slave) with this protocol. As a Beacon device, it is usually placed in a fixed position indoors and broadcast continuously to the surrounding, but it can’t connect to any low-power Bluetooth host. All broadcast data is arranged according to certain rules.

SKYLAB Beacon configuration is a phone APP that is configured by the SKYLAB R & D team for "SKYLAB Beacon". Using this phone application can connect the phone with "SKYLAB Beacon" and modify the parameters, such as UUID, Major, Minor, Beacon name, etc. These parameters will be broadcasted after the broadcast mode opening, so it is used for product promotion by large shopping malls. 

Default Parameters   

Name:Skylab Beacon

UUID:FDA50693A4E24FB1AFCFC6EB07647825 

Major:10044 

Minor:47558

Advertise interval:200 ms 

Measured power:-61 dBm 

Transmission power: 0 dBm 

Password:1234    

Parameters Range

Name:1~12 characters.

UUID:16 bytes Hex String format

Major:0~65535 

Minor:0~65535

Advertise interval:100ms~1000ms

Measured power:-100~-30dBm

Tramsmission power:-30,-20,-16,-12,-8,-4,0,4dBm

Password:4 characters

Applications

1.Indoor position

2.Wechat Shake around

3.Shopping Mall

4.Museum

5.Car Parking

6.Hotel and Restaurant

7.Scenic Spot

8.Leisure and Amusement

9.Access Control and Checking Attendance

Connection

The Beacon being connected should be happened with a password required action within 30 seconds, so that user get the operation right. Timeout or a wrong password will cause a disconnection from the Beacon. Configure Beacon’s parameters after connection completed, these parameters will be broadcasted when theBeaconbeingadvertising.

APP Main Interface Details

1.Start/Stop scanning icon

2.Settingsicon

3.Beaconname

4.MACaddress

5.Batterylevel

6.RSSIvalue

7.Advertisinginterval

8.Transmissionpower

9.Measuredpower

10.Major&Minorvalue

11.UUID