Beacon

This section presents the user interactions and testing methods for the Beacon application.

Advertising data

The beacons are non-connectable advertising packets that are sent on the three advertising channels. The latter contains the following fields.

Company Identifier (2 bytes): 0x0025 (NXP ID as defined by the Bluetooth SIG).
Beacon Identifier (1 byte): 0xBC (Allows identifying an NXP Beacon alongside with Company Identifier).
UUID (16 bytes): Beacon sensor unique identifier.
A (2 bytes): Beacon application data.
B (2 bytes): Beacon application data.
C (2 bytes): Beacon application data.
RSSI at 1m (1 byte): Allows distance-based applications.

By default, the UUID value is a random value based on the unique identifier of the board.

The Beacon application is supported on the following platform: