We built an AirTag-like network for sensors that talk to your servers
Hi, we’re Simon, Don and Dan, and we’re developing infrastructure for enabling Bluetooth devices that can communicate with your web backend (we’re calling it Blecon). Think your own AirTags network, but for sensors talking to your servers. We’ve got most of the underlying tech for the network infrastructure in place, and now have samples of a first manufacturer device that supports Blecon - a small rechargeable accelerometer tag. Not much live yet, but we put a summary of this first device and how it works in the link (plus you’ll find some early developer docs for the network infrastructure…
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Hi, we’re Simon, Don and Dan, and we’re developing infrastructure for enabling Bluetooth devices that can communicate with your web backend (we’re calling it Blecon). Think your own AirTags network, but for sensors talking to your servers. We’ve got most of the underlying tech for the network infrastructure in place, and now have samples of a first manufacturer device that supports Blecon - a small rechargeable accelerometer tag. Not much live yet, but we put a summary of this first device and how it works in the link (plus you’ll find some early developer docs for the network infrastructure itself). TL;DR the tag logs timestamped motion and orientation events, and then sends the data using Blecon when phones come nearby. The data arrives at your specified network endpoint as JSON HTTP POSTs, so it is nice and flexible for integrating into any web infrastructure or framework you might be using. The customer use case for this device is actually monitoring when and how long equipment is being used, but motion and orientation can be used to infer a lot of things. Interested in what ideas you have for services you could build with just this first accelerometer sensor?! We’re still developing the network product, but interested in feedback, ideas, questions and use-cases. And if you are really interested we do have samples of this sensor so feel free to reach out if you have a service you’d like to try building with it!
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