The BLE beacons received from us (or purchased directly from your preferred vendor) must be configured before being used. The configuration of the BLE beacons can be done by connecting to the BLE beacons using the App provided by each BLE beacons manufacturer.
Download the configuration App
These are the links to the Apps of the manufacturers we work with:
- Radius Network:
- April Brother
Set the parameters
These are the parameters that need to be set for each one of the BLE beacons configured:
- Transmission power: set to the maximum (usually 3 or 4 dBm). If you are concerned about battery powered iBeacons, keep in mind that the Transmission power has a really small impact on the battery life.
- Advertisement rate: at least 1 advertisement every 4-5 seconds. The advertisement rate has a major impact on the battery life.
- UUID, Major, Minor:
- UUID: leave it as-is.
- Major and Minor: the combination of Major and Minor must differs for each one of the iBeacons in the environment!
- Standard: if it can be set, then it needs to be set like this:
- iBeacon – ON.
- AltBeacon, Eddystone UID and Eddystone URL standards – OFF.
How to protect your BLE beacons from unwanted changes of the parameters
- Radius Network – to set a password follow the instructions inside this page.
- April Brother – as long as they are active, these BLE beacons can be configured using the April Brother Apps linked above. To protect them it is possible to set a password of 6 characters once the smartphone used for the configuration is connected to the BLE beacon of interest.
How to do a batch configuration of the BLE beacons
If you can’t configure your BLE beacons one by one you can proceed with a batch configuration:
If you can’t configure your BLE beacons one by one you can proceed with a batch configuration:
- Radius Network beacons – it can be done using the platform called RADIUS NETWORK DIRECTOR.
- April Brother beacons – it can be done during the purchase process of the BLE beacons. The BLE beacons purchased will be pre-configured at the factory and sent to you using the specific parameters requested during the purchase process (minor, major, tx power, adv interval etc..).