InPlay IN100 NanoBeacon in action

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 Blecon's next generation beacon format to be detected by Blecon Hotspots and the Blecon 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 (Digikey) - 2.5x2.5mm 8-WDFN 
• IN100-Q1 (Digikey) - 3.0x3.0mm 18-WQFN

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

• IN100 Development Kit (Digikey)

It can be configured to be spotted by the Blecon 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 Blecon, you can request access here:

• https://www.blecon.net/in100

For devices supporting more advanced Smart Beacon functionality, take a look at the Blecon Beacons page.