{"id":6900,"date":"2021-11-15T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:36:34","slug":"whats-the-smallest-ibeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/whats-the-smallest-ibeacon\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Smallest iBeacon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Small beacons are sometimes needed so that they remain unobtrusive or need to be embedded into larger devices. The smallest, cased, beacons we supply are:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\/e8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6902\" style=\"width:256px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/e8_smaller.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\/e8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">E8 36mm x 23mm x 5mm<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\/FSC-BP103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5398\" style=\"width:256px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fsc-bp103-smaller-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\/FSC-BP103\" target=\"_blank\">FSC-BP103 37.8mm x 33.8mm x 7.9 mm<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The compromise with small beacons is that they have CR2032 batteries that don&#8217;t last as long as larger battery beacons. If the beacons won&#8217;t be moving and you have access to USB power, consider using <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/usb-beacons\" target=\"_blank\">USB beacons<\/a> that are also small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small beacons are sometimes needed so that they remain unobtrusive or need to be embedded into larger devices. The smallest, cased, beacons we supply are: The compromise with small beacons is that they have CR2032 batteries that don&#8217;t last as long as larger battery beacons. If the beacons won&#8217;t be moving and you have access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/whats-the-smallest-ibeacon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s the Smallest iBeacon?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}