Atmosic provides ultra-low-power wireless platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT) and by leveraging its technology, the beacon claims to offer the longest battery life in its class, setting a new standard for battery longevity and sustainability.
Due to its long battery life and compact design, the beacon is intended for a variety of applications including asset tracking, indoor navigation, movement or activity detection and temperature monitoring.
In addition to being a more sustainable option for IoT devices, the beacon also helps to reduce maintenance time and costs by minimising the need for battery replacement. The beacon’s ability to operate uninterrupted for extended periods of time is especially important for hard-to-reach locations in enterprises and industrial environments.
“Our new beacon meets the three key criteria companies are looking for in IoT devices: a sustainable solution, that is low maintenance and cost-efficient,” said Matthias Schneider, CEO at hard&softWERK, which produces the blukii brand devices.
Designed with what is said to be the industry’s lowest power consumption, Atmosic’s ATM33 Bluetooth LE SoC enables the blukii beacon to run with an idle current consumption below 1µA and active transmit peak current consumption below 2.9mA at 0dBm. This extends battery life by a factor of up to 3 when compared with a non-Atmosic based beacon. Lifetime can be extended even further if the device is just activated on movement, detected by the additional ultra-low power accelerometer.
“Over the past few years, we’ve seen a huge demand for Atmosic’s ultra-low-power wireless technology in asset tracking applications, since long battery life and uninterrupted operation are essential for these types of applications,” said David Su, CEO at Atmosic. “blukii’s beacon is ideally suited to meet this demand, along with the growing interest in sustainable solutions for activity detection, environmental monitoring, navigation, and a variety of other IoT use cases.”
The blukii manager system and the blukii configurator app provide tools for companies to manage and configure fleets of beacons, consequently companies can deploy their beacons right away or make design changes - such as adding acceleration features and a temperature sensor - using blukii’s product customisation features.
Customers can also make updates over-the-air once beacons are already in use.
