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InPlay IN100 NanoBeacon in action

IN100 Chip

The IN100 NanoBeacon is a Bluetooth Low Energy transmit-only chip suitable for building low-cost active RFID and wireless sensor beacon applications.

 

The InPlay NanoBeacon is a Bluetooth Transmitter frontend coupled with FSM allowing it to deliver a very low-cost solution that can act as a basic Bluetooth Beacon.

Although it can not make connections, it can be configured as a Basic Beacon using º£½ÇºÚÁÏ's next generation beacon format to be detected by º£½ÇºÚÁÏ Agent and the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ Network.

The main features are the chip are:

  • Bluetooth 5.3 compliant advertising payloads
  • Optional I/O for interfacing with sensors and host MCU
  • Operating voltage range of 1.1V~3.6V and low power operation
  • Additional features like authentication and encryption features

The parts are already generally available now and come in under $0.50 @ 1k units:

  • IN100-D1 () - 2.5x2.5mm 8-WDFN 
  • IN100-Q1 () - 3.0x3.0mm 18-WQFN

And a development kit is available that can be powered and programmed via USB:

  • IN100 Development Kit ()

Board+Overview


It can be configured to be spotted by the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ Network using the NanoBeacon Configuration Tool and an appropriate beacon format - here it is in action using the development kit:

 

If you'd like to try the IN100 NanoBeacon with º£½ÇºÚÁÏ, you can request access here:

For devices supporting more advanced Smart Beacon functionality, take a look at the º£½ÇºÚÁÏ Tags page.

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