Need your help

[Usman Rashid]

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I want your suggestions and recommendation regarding to choose which one of your BLE development kit.

I want a Bluetooth development kit which has long range and consume lesser battery. Basically, I want beacon as an slave and development kit module as an master. I want beacon to send the location coordinates to master / development kit and then development kit will send the location message to its UART port that I can see on putty or terminal software.

Please give me some suggestion that which of your module or whole development kit can fulfill my needs? I am not a embedded software developer so that is why I need to some kit which is easily understandable and in which I can easily do changes.

Looking forward to your reply.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

The best alternative if you want a production ready development kit, that support Bluetooth Low Energy is the nRF52 DK, which contain the nRF52832 IC. The range of this device is up to 100m outdoor in line of sight, with typical indoor range of 10-20m.

If you need longer range, the nRF52840 PDK can be an alternative. This support Bluetooth 5.0 with the new long range feature, which can increase the range by using lower data rate. Notice that the devices you are connecting to must support this mode as well for this to work. The nRF52840 is currently only available in engineering samples and preview models, the production variant will become available in Q4 2017.

Best regards,

Jørgen

[Usman Rashid]

Basically, can you send me or give me some links so that I can start learning to how to code on your development kit.

Another thing is we want some ready made example or code of Beacon side which will transmit the location information that we will enter in to it and then the other side which is the master side, in our case the development kit will receives the data and transmit it to its UART port.

First for the proof of concept I want to send AT commands from the DK to terminal software (putty).

Do you have such ready made example in your blog?