User Guide

BT Tag GUIDE 4.8
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APPENDIX A
Beacon Broadcast data
iBeacon (Apple)
Byte
Value
Description
0
0x1A
Advertising Length
1
0xFF
Advertising Type (locked to Custom Manufacturer Packet)
2-3
0x4C00
Manufacturer ID (locked to Apples BT SIG identifier)
4
0x2
Subtype (locked to iBeacon)
5
0x15
Subtype length
6-21
Proximity UUID
22-23
Major
24-25
Minor
26
Signal Power (RSSI measured @1m)
AltBeacon (Radius Networks)
Byte
Value
Description
0
0x1B
Advertising Length
1
0xFF
Advertising Type (locked to Custom Manufacturer Packet)
2-3
0x1500
Manufacturer ID (RTX)
4-5
0xBEAC
Beacon Code (locked to big endian representation of 0xBEAC)
6-26
Beacon ID. The big endian representation of the beacon identifier. For
interoperability purposes, the first 16+ bytes of the beacon identifier should be
unique to the advertisers organizational unit. Any remaining bytes of the beacon
identifier may be subdivided as needed for the use case.
27
Signal Power (RSSI measured @1m)
28
A 1-byte value from 0x00 to 0xFF. Interpretation of this value is to be defined by
the manufacturer and is to be evaluated based on the Manufacturer ID value