{"id":8408,"date":"2023-04-11T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:09:13","slug":"temperature-powered-bluetooth-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/temperature-powered-bluetooth-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature Powered Bluetooth Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons transmit a radio signal at regular intervals, powered by small batteries. The batteries need periodic replacement that can be time-consuming and costly when a large number of beacons are in use. There&#8217;s a new paper from Rzesz\u00f3w University of Technology, Poland on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-9292\/12\/6\/1278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon Powered by the Temperature Difference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-1024x526.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8409\" width=\"768\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-1536x789.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-2048x1053.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/peltierbluetoothbeacon-1200x617.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p> <br>The paper proposes a power source that gathers energy through the Peltier effect. As temperature differences between two surfaces are present in most environments, the authors evaluated this energy source&#8217;s effectiveness in powering the beacons through measurements and simulations. They measured the beacon&#8217;s power supply demand in different modes and examined the Peltier module under different loads and temperature differences.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-1024x626.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8410\" width=\"768\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-1536x938.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-2048x1251.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/beaconpoweruse-1200x733.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>Based on the data gathered, they defined an energy conditioning system sufficient to power the beacon at a given temperature difference and developed a model of the proposed device. This solution eliminates the need for batteries, making the beacon maintenance-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons transmit a radio signal at regular intervals, powered by small batteries. The batteries need periodic replacement that can be time-consuming and costly when a large number of beacons are in use. There&#8217;s a new paper from Rzesz\u00f3w University of Technology, Poland on Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon Powered by the Temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/temperature-powered-bluetooth-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temperature Powered Bluetooth Beacons&#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":[42,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408"}],"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=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}