BLE beacon hardware for personal asset tracking.

[TranTuan]

Hi, i am trying to build a ble beacon for personal asset tracking. The one that is like Tile or Trackr. What kind of chipset and program that i should use.

[Kenneth]

Have you looked at the Tile node application in nRF5 SDK v16?
https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sdk_nrf5_v16.0.0/ble_sdk_app_tile.html 

Just make to check out tile_config.h on how to get a INTERIM_TILE_ID and INTERIM_AUTH_KEY from https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/platform-business-solutions 

This will work with the Tile app for iOS/Android.

[Toyman]

Can I get the required key as a DIY-enthusiast?

[Kenneth]

You need to get that from Tile, don't they respond?

[Toyman]

I haven't tried yet :-) BUT I have not found tile_service.h in the SDK. Is it there?

Example's main.c states #include "tile_service/tile_service.h", but the file is not in the SDK package

[Kenneth]

Kenneth said:

Just make to check out tile_config.h on how to get a INTERIM_TILE_ID and INTERIM_AUTH_KEY from https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/platform-business-solutions 

 Check out that file.

The file you are looking for is \external\tile\tile_shim\tile_service\tile_service.h

[Toyman]

Do you have an idea what's Tile standard reaction time? I send a request 3 days ago, no responce.

I am trying to understand, is this because they are not interested or because there are slow?

[Kenneth]

I will look into this one.

Best regards,
Kenneth