Ibeacon Receiver

[yokesh.Kavi]

Hi,

Is Ibeacons are normal advertising packets ? Will all the BLE Central which scan receive this ibeacons ?

Can I use NRF51822 as a device which receive the ibeacon (central) and communicate with a smart-phone(peripheral) at same time using S130 Soft-device .

[Petter Myhre]

Yes and no. Typically advertisments contain different data types, like name, UUID and so on, but the iBeacon usally only contains one data type, manufacturer specific data. And then inside this there is a format specified by the iBeacon specification.

All centrals can receive the advertisments, it is not encrypted or anything, but for example with iOS devices the you have to use Apples company identifier inside the manufacturer specific data.

You can use the S130 as a central and scan advertisments, and then connect to a smart phone as a peripheral yes.

[yokesh.Kavi]

Hi Peter, Thanks For Your Quick Response . I couldnt understand For what you are saying No .

This is my requirement , My NRF52822 will act as a beacon receiver and it will inform my Android/IOS device about the nearest beacon transmitter . Is this possible ?

[Petter Myhre]

It is possible.

[yokesh.Kavi]

Thanks Peter !!

[yokesh.Kavi]

Hi Peter, Sorry for asking again , please confirm me this . Here. Beacon I mentioned is i-beacon . So please confirm i-beacon Rx + ble peripheral is possible ... Also please suggest me a development kit for the same which can be easily solder able on PCA ..

Thanks..