Product description

The RFD Beacon is a compact portable tag that runs on a CR2032 coin-cell battery with an ultra-low power NRF52832 chip and utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) V5. The tag has one programmable button and a LED for use during development. The RFD Beacon also supports complete Over-The-Air (OTA) Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) for firmware updates on the nRF52832 chip.

Highlights

• Ultra-compact form factor
• Full OTA DFU for protocol stack and application
• 1 x button
• 1 x LED
• Fully programmable
• Source code and apps for iOS and Android available as downloads

Processor Key features

• 64 MHz Cortex-M4 with FPU
• 512/256 KB Flash, 64/32 KB RAM
• 2.4 GHz Transceiver
• Bluetooth Low Energy
• +4 dBm TX power
• 128-bit AES

Specifications

• Size: 38.4Ø x 13.8mm
• Battery Capacity: 210mAh
• Waterproof: No
• Programming pinouts:
• A standard 10 pin JTAG cable is used to program/debug the unit and slides over the PCB.

Downloads

• Product Summary