MINEW TECHNOLOGIES MS56PX User Manual

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MS56 MiniBeacon

Datasheet V1.0

The MiniBeacon MS56PX is developed and produced including hardware and firmware all by MINEW
Technologies. It is built-in a battery holder and a coin battery, it can work as a standalone system.
Moreover, MS56PX is based on CC2540/CC2541 BLE 4.0 module and built-in an advanced power management
unit, the advanced power management unit helps MiniBeacon to save at least 20% battery energy than
other beacons without this unit.

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- Built-in MiniBeacon firmware

- Built-in a 1000mAh CR2477 battery

- Bluetooth low energy technology compatible

- Excellent link budget (up to 97dB)

- Suitable for long distance applications

- Accurate digital RSSI

- High performance and low power 8051 core MCU

- AES security coprocessor

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- iBeacon License

- FCC Regulation (FCC Part 15)

- CE Regulations (Included EN300328, EN301489, EN60950, EN62479)

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- Application for advertisement and proximity location

- Supports both iOS 7.0+ and Android 4.3+ system

- Built-in pairing password to prevent others changing the settings

- MiniBeacon name, UUID, Major, Minor values and broadcasting interval can be changed by customer

- Battery capacity intelligent detecting and notification feature

- Supports soft reboot function, no longer required to take out the battery to reboot the device

- MiniBeacon serial ID can be customized, it will help customer to easily distinguish which one is which

- Placed a button on the board used to activate / shutdown beacon device

- Supports the connectable and non-connectable broadcasting mode

- Supports the OAD function

- Publishes the free upgraded firmware regularly

- Built-in JTAG port for other customized application firmware as a standalone system

- The customer’s logo can be printed on the housing if required

- Customized housing and firmware services will be welcomed

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MS56 MiniBeacon

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MS56 consists of silicone rubber housing and iBC08 kernel. The iBC08 kernel is a small iBeacon unit with a
matt-white plastic housing in fact, its size is 33 x 34 x 15mm. Based on the iBC08 kernel, it quite easy and
rapidly to build a housing for your beacons in low cost.

How easy and rapidly?

1) we would like to provide many different housing designs for you to choose;

2) we can help you to build a housing in 15 days, but the rights of casing belongs to you;

Is it truly low cost?

Sure. Please give us an email or phone call, further detailed quotation will be sent to you in 24 hrs.

Datasheet V1.0

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1. Activate MiniBeacon as below method before using device

1.1 Press the BUTTON and keep holding 10 seconds, the Blue LED will light on 5 seconds and then off;
it means that MiniBeacon was wakening up and starts to broadcasting. See image 4 and 5.

2. Shutdown MiniBeacon as below method

2.1 Press the BUTTON and keep holding 10 seconds, the Blue LED will flash 5 times and then off;
it means that MiniBeacon was on sleeping mode and stop broadcasting.

Blue LED

BUTTON

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* Please be noted the color difference was caused by the shooting.

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