Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

[kaushik24psl]

Hi

I was trying to build Beacon scanner application .using nrf52 Dongle as a beacon and and nrf52840 DK as a scanner to scan the beacons Kindly please guide me as im new to this thechnology

kindly provide me sample code for reference and what possible manupulations can be done in the available nRF codes ....

[Simonr]

Hi

On the Infocenter, you can download our SDK, which includes examples for both a BLE beacon (peripheral) called ble_app_beacon, and multiple central applications that should be able to configure to scan for beacons. This post describes how you can modify the ble_app_uart_c example to scan for beacons for example.

In order to make the beacon example compatible with your nRF52840 Dongle, you'll have to follow the nRF52 Dongle programming tutorial, which shows you how to adapt a BLE example for the Dongle and flash.

In nRF Connect for Desktop, you can also flash a scanner onto the nRF52840 DK by launching the Bluetooth Low Energy app, and confirm that you want to program the device.

Best regards,

Simon

[kaushik24psl]

Hello 

Thanks for providing me relevent references which solved my  problem of scanner system

Now im moving on to making a Gateway using Nordic 52840 DK

operation of Gateway should be such that it should detect the no of scanners in it visinity and detrmine the data and further post it to the server.

kindly provide me some help

thanks

[Simonr]

Hi

Sorry, but I think I'll need some more information here. A gateway to what exactly? We do have examples/source code for a gateway to nRFCloud, but I'm not sure if this is the server you want to send to. Please specify what you're after, and I'll try to help you.

Best regards,

Simon

[kaushik24psl]

We dont require to use nRF cloud and this server .we have another server with which MQTT based connection should happen.

Here I have already developed beacon scanner application now that data which is advertised should get scaned by gateway and than it should it should post on our server using MQTT.

any possible soultion plz rever

[Simonr]

Okay, thank you for clarifying!

I don't recommend using the nRF52840DK for a gateway like this. It would be way easier to send the beacon scanner data onwards to a Raspberry Pi or similar and use that as a gateway instead.

Best regards,

Simon