TFT100 Beacon List

Beacon Settings

Beacon Detection

• Disabled – Functionality disabled.
  
• All – Any visible beacon is detected (Max. 100).
  
• Configured – Only data received from listed beacons in Beacon List is sent to server.
  

Beacon Record

• Eventual – Record is sent after the scanning procedure is completed. This parameter depends on Update Frequency that is configured in Bluetooth 4.0
• Periodic – Record will be saved based on configured time period.
  
  • Record Period on Move - Timer for record generation when the device is moving.
  • Record Period on Stop - Timer for record generation when the device is staying at the place.

Beacon List

List of authorized beacons. Eddystone and iBeacon protocols are supported. Beacon IDs can be entered the following way: Namspace:InstanceID UUID:Major:Minor Any of the ID parts can be omitted. Ex. Namespace:, UUID::, UUID::Minor, etc. Note! UUID, Namespace or Major/Minor for iBeacon and Namespace for Eddystone. If Beacon Detection selected as Configured, then beacons will be detected and their data transmitted to the server only if their IDs are included in Beacon List. If Non Stop Scan is enabled in Bluetooth 4.0 tab settings, then a Beacon Clear Timeout will appear under Beacon Settings.

Beacon Clear Timeout - Time period in seconds in which beacons are “visible” to the device and if beacons are not detected repeatedly in these time periods, they are considered lost and deleted from visible beacons list. In case of periodic scan, visible list will be cleared after the scan if beacons were not found during the last scan.

iBeacon and Eddystone data frame has the following structure:

• iBeacon – 20 Bytes (UUID(16 Bytes):major(2 Bytes):minor(2 Bytes))
• Eddystone – 16 Bytes (Namespace(10 Bytes):Instance ID(6 Bytes))
  

Identifier - There are two identifiers which can be packed into records:

• ID - IBeacon or Eddystone specific data (UUID or Namespace/Instance ID respectively).
• MAC - MAC address of Beacons.

EYE Beacon Settings

• The New firmware has two Beacon lists, so it is possible to create two separate lists of beacons, standard one with Beacons ID (UUID:Major:Minor, or Namespace:InstanceID) and new one according Beacon Name (by name or prefix, for example all beacons with prefix "ID1" can be saved.)

• Beacon ID - configurator allows to configure beacon ID in iBeacon or Eddystone format in Beacon List.
• Beacon Name - The names of beacons which need to be filtered can be entered. Only the beginning part of the EYE Beacon local name has to match. For example, if in the EYE Beacon name list “EYE_Beacon” is added and the FM tracker detects EYE_Beacon1, EYE_Beacon2, EYE_BeaconXYZ, all these EYE Beacons will be added to EYE Beacon name list.

Both ID and Name filters can work at the same time. If beacon doesn’t match ID filter, but matches the name, it will be added to beacon list. However, Filtering only works Beacon Mode is set to Simple.

Eye Feature Mode: Proximity

EYE beacon Proximity events is a functionality which creates three different types of records, depending on the captured Beacons RSSI level. This functionality is only supported with Teltonika EYE beacons.
Proximity events consist of near, away and lost events:

• When EYE beacon RSSI level is below the first configured threshold, the beacon will be added to Near Beacon Record (AVL ID: 10828)
• When EYE BEACON RSSI level is between the second and first configured threshold, beacon is added to Away Beacon record (AVL ID: 10829)
• When EYE Beacon RSSI level is above the second configured threshold, beacon is added to Lost Beacon record (AVL ID: 10831). In the case of EYE Beacon disappearing from the environment and not being detected by the FM tracker anymore, the beacon will be added to Lost Beacon record and will be removed from Beacon list.

Event modes

• Disabled – Record generating is disabled for the selected range
• Periodic – Records will be periodically generated for the selected range, according to the configured record period on move or on stop value.
• On Change – Records will be generated as soon as the Eye Beacon number changes for the selected range.

Averaging Timeout
This parameter specifies how long it will take current RSSI value to reach new RSSI value. For example, current EYE Beacon RSSI value is -40 dBm. FMB captures same EYE Beacon with RSSI value of -60 dBm. If averaging timeout is configured to be 10 seconds, it will take 10 seconds for RSSI value to reach -60 dBm from -40 dBm. Keep in mind that this is assuming perfect conditions and subsequent EYE Beacon RSSI

Eye Feature Mode: Lost & Found

Lost & Found EYE Beacon Feature
Purpose of this functionality is to periodically generate records with all EYE Beacon list (AVL ID: 10828) and create eventual On Change records only when EYE Beacon is lost (AVL ID: 10831) or found (AVL ID: 10829).
Lost and Found Beacon records only include EYE Beacon which was lost or found, not the full Beacon list.

• If multiple EYE Beacons were found or lost at the same time, multiple will be included into the record.
  
• If Visible Beacon List is enabled, Beacon records containing the list of visible beacons will be generated according to the configured period parameters Record Period on Move and Record Period on Stop

Advanced Beacon protocol is being used to send Lost & Found records.
Note:Same AVL ID’s as for Proximity events are being used, since two features cannot work at the same time.

• AVL ID: 10828 Visible Beacon List (periodic)
• AVL ID: 10829 Found Beacon List (On Change)
• AVL ID: 10831 Lost Eye Beacon List (On Change)

Proximity and Lost & found AVL ID elements have the following structure:

When Proximity or Lost & Found events are sent, the records will always include Beacon RSSI, Beacon ID, low battery indicator and Battery Voltage.