Bluetooth Beacon Technology Nepal | Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Chip extends battery life.

Source    : thomasnet
By        : Associated Press
Category  : Beacon Technology Nepal, Bluetooth proximity beacon

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced its latest and lowest power Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo chip for mobile platforms and accessories. The BCM43012 delivers up to 3X longer battery life compared to Broadcom's previous combo chips, enabling OEMs to design a new wave of high-performance connected devices. For more CES news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.

The BCM43012 allows OEMs to integrate Wi-Fi into platforms that have traditionally been powered by Bluetooth alone due to battery size or constrained power budgets. In some applications, the BCM43012 Wi-Fi consumes 80 percent less power than the most common Bluetooth solutions today. This significant reduction in Wi-Fi power consumption enables OEMs to leverage the increased throughput and range of Wi-Fi to deliver new use cases in a wide variety of devices. Using integrated Wi-Fi, accessories can also connect directly to the cloud without an intermediary smartphone.

"For more than a decade, Broadcom has achieved a market leadership position in connectivity combos by setting the standard for performance, features, and power consumption," said Dino Bekis, Broadcom Vice President of Marketing, Wireless Connectivity Combos. "We have applied this expertise to launch a family of products for the promising mobile accessories markets with solutions that allow our customers to deliver a new generation of connected platforms with breakthrough capabilities."

Key Features and Benefits

--  Highly-integrated 28nm dual-band 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.2 SoC
--  Integrated efficient power amplifiers (PAs), low noise amplifiers (LNAs), and power management unit (PMU) for low rest of bill of materials (RBOM) cost and small system footprint
--  Architectural improvements provide unrivaled low power in sleep and active states for both Wi-Fi and BT
--  Coexistence hardware and algorithms to ensure optimal Wi-Fi and BT performance
--  WLAN features include enhanced proximity and location features enabled by 802.11mc and TurboQAM® data rates up to 96 Mbps
--  Bluetooth features include angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD) technology, wireless charging support for A4WP and AirFuel, and early adopter 2 Mbps Low Energy protocol capability

Availability
The BCM43012 is now sampling with leading OEMs.

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With one of the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

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Beacon Application | Beacon Technology will let us kiss app clutter goodbye

Source    : Tennessean
By        :    Julie May
Category  : Beacon Technology

There is an app for almost everything these days. If you’ve been shopping lately, visited a tourist destination or gone out to eat, you’ve probably encountered the many businesses trying to get you to download and use their app on your smart device. So many apps, so little time.

We turn to our smartphones for the answers to many daily questions. What’s on the menu at my favorite restaurant? Are there any specials here today? What is worth visiting nearby? Often, a search doesn’t find the answer as quickly as we’d like.

Apps are well-intentioned tech efforts but are often expensive for businesses, because smartphone apps require regular redevelopment to conform to upgrades required by Apple and Android. Plus, they clutter up your smartphone’s storage and, when left running, drain batteries.

It’s frustrating for the customer — and in many cases, it’s not worth it for a business to create a custom app.

Wouldn’t it be great if answers just “came to you” based on your location or your preferences? You could stop juggling multiple apps and stop bogging down your smartphone.

According to Business Insider, “Beacons will directly influence over $4 billion worth of U.S. retail sales this year at top retailers, and that number will climb tenfold in 2016."

How beacons work

Beacon technology is an intuitive way for consumers to skip the smartphone app hurdles. A business can install these small pieces of hardware practically anywhere. Once they’re set up, beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to transmit information to nearby smartphones.  A business controls the information broadcast by beacons with a browser-based software system that maps each beacon and updates the messaging whenever, wherever you want.

BLE for Business

It’s easy to see how Bluetooth Low Energy beacons make sense for many businesses.

First, you install BLE-enabled beacons in key locations (on your corporate campus, in your hospital or at your shopping mall), wherever you might need to reach a customer with information. Your customers’ smartphone detects information shared by a beacon in their smartphone browser. You could share a map — or pictures, coupons specials, tourist information, audio and video tours, wheelchair locations — whatever is most valuable to your business and the user.

BLE for customers

As a customer, you’ll be able to kiss your phone’s app clutter goodbye. Best of all, you won’t have to figure out how to find the answer nearly so often. You may start to feel like your smartphone just reads your mind.

Beacon technology should even end up feeling less intrusive for customers, because it only works when the phone screen is already on, instead of sending lots of annoying popup notifications at inappropriate times. (Beacons that work directly with downloaded smartphone apps can still do this.)

The real game-changer here will be that allow practically anyone to get into the beacon beaming business.

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