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If you’re not intimidated by NDAs, devices like this can be built for approx. $15/ea. or less (based on your volume) with a battery option. A CR2032 will yield
by pupdogg 5y ago
If you’re not intimidated by NDAs, devices like this can be built for approx. $15/ea. or less (based on your volume) with a battery option. A CR2032 will yield approx. 6-7 years of life for the tag as long as it’s setup to emit once every 30-60s. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple’s cost is in $1-2 per device with the battery.
- compiler-guy 5y agoHome brew are fun and handy, and very useful if you tend to lose things in known locations like your own home. I have been using my own for years. The disadvantage is that homebrew don’t get the network effects of a bunch of users who just happen to pass by when you dropped it in the park. So the trade off is real and depends on how and when you tend to lose things.
- lozaning 5y agoI worked on the samsung version that also recently launched, the scale at which we could find things was staggering. Nothing in the world is really ever that far from a Samsung smartphone anymore.
- jbverschoor 5y agoYou can buy complete bluetooth beacons including battery for under $7 in the EU. They can easily be built for a few bucks. Good profits, and I expect many people will have 5-10 devices, because they're so cheap
- ghaff 5y agoI played with some BLE beacons a few years back. I honestly didn't find them very useful for finding things--though that was probably some older Bluetooth version.
- jbverschoor 5y agoThe trick is of course the locating network, and UHF, but it's essentially the same hardware