Give advise on Batch-Test for me?

[xtting]

Hi,

I developed a wire-less sensor based on 51822-BLE. I need a batch test method for the product.

My thought about the test is that connect the sensor to phones, and compare it with the bench-mark sensor. But have some questions here.

1, As for BLE is a 1-1 connection, it's a huge work if we connect all the sensors one by one to the phone. And it's very difficult if many guy work together, they can't distinguish which one is their target divise when many device on ADV state. And we need some phones for test, we don't think it's a good way.

2, Could I directly swith the S110 to the RFID state, then All the testers can receive all the sonsors data? (BTW, we have developped other sensor based on 24L01-RFID, and all the readers' work and software is complete, we only need adjust our software suitable for testing instead of for using)

3, If switch to a RFID means a pure new develope for RFID, and may use many time, is there other choise. Use the Beacon (By now I only know the basic concept of beacon, dont know any technical details)? Can our computer Win7-64bits suport the Beacon directly, or need 3-party support? How much about the support?

4, Any one can give me other advice?

[Anders Strand]

Hey.

I am not sure what you mean by RFID mode, can you elaborate?

You can make all the devices advertise (broadcast) their sensor values. These advertisements can be picked up by a computer or phone. You will not have to connect, but you will still have the problem of distinguishing between the different devices. If your devices has some kind of ID, this could also be broadcasted to solve this problem.

Windows 7 does not have built in Bluetooth Smart support. (Windows 8 and 10 does) You can however use our nRF51 Dongle and Master Control Panel software to connect to devices.

[Anders Strand]

You can make the nRF51 use the Enhanced Shockburst protocol (ESB) by using this example project. This should make you able to send packets like with the nRF24. Read about enhanced shockburst here and here. I assume that the RFID mode you refer to simply is sending out packets with an ID and some data. A BLE beacon is simply a BLE device that broadcasts (advertises) a specific data packet. Is is easy to implement on the nRf51 devices.