Creating network of beacons as an advertiser and any MCU as a central

[Leonardo]

Ciao all,

Two weeks ago I have started to learn about beacons and their usage. I have bought pca10040 development kit and designed custom nRF52832 based beacons. After following the tutorials and instructions without having any problem, I realised that did not know how to connect these beacons (or read their IDs and RSSI values) without using development kit or any other apps (such as nrf connect).

Beacons are advertising at every 5 seconds intervals, my aim is to create positioning system for indoor applications by using triangulation method so I need to read the signal strength and IDs.

Is it possible to pull these data using microcontroller bluetooth module within? If it is, How can I do it, and can you give an any example? By the way I am using Eddystone format for beacons. Thank you in advance.

King regards,

Leonardo

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi Leonardo,

All the BLE Central examples in our SDK implement scanning. You will get a BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT event when an advertising packet is received. The struct ble_gap_evt_adv_report_t contains the advertising packet and metadata. In the struct, RSSI and address of the peripheral is available.

I cannot provide any details for other MCUs than Nordic devices.

Best regards,

Jørgen