Bluetooth program tags. Function - remind geolocation
New Bluetooth The Tile Slim tag will fit discreetly into any wallet or purse.
According to Tile, the tag is the thinnest Bluetooth tracker in the world. The tag can track a wallet, passport, license, tablet or other valuable items.
The company also introduced the Tile Smart Location Platform for developers. Third party companies will now be able to use Tile technology in their products.
Tile's success began with the launch of a project on Kickstarter. Today, the Tile Bluetooth tag helps to find lost items in 200 countries around the world. The tracker is a small square electronic plate that is attached to things with a high risk of loss or theft - wallet, passport, luggage, bicycle and the like.
The Bluetooth tag works in conjunction with the Tile mobile application and helps owners find their items if they are lost. But it wasn't technology alone that fueled Tile's success. The tag has become popular among the user community, which helps to find more lost items.
If the owner of the tag goes out of range of the Bluetooth signal, then the loss can be detected by another user in the community. About what mobile app will immediately notify the owner indicating the location of the tag via the Internet of Things (IoT). This technology sets Tile apart from trackers from other manufacturers.
New Tile Slim Bluetooth Tag fixes some imperfections previous model, which was too thick to be used in a wallet. The Slim model is only 2.4 mm thick – two bank cards.
The Tile Slim tag can be ordered on the company’s website or in the Amazon online store. One tag costs $30, but it is more profitable to buy four pieces at once for $100.
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Have you ever lost your keys, wallets or any other precious items? If yes, then the Nut Mini review is exactly what you need.
First, let me briefly tell you what Nut Minis are and why I bought them for myself? These are special Bluetooth tags that work with your smartphone or tablet via a Bluetooth connection. They can be hung on your keys or shoved into the farthest pocket of your wallet. And thanks to the double-sided stickers that come in the kit, Nut Mini can even be stuck anywhere. But why all this? What's the use of them? How do tags work? I will tell you all about this below.
Equipment
Everything here is very boring and banal. Included with the tag, the manufacturer deigned to include a battery, instructions and a cord with which this very tag can be attached somewhere.
Appearance
When I ordered them, for some reason I was sure that the tags would be heavier. But in fact it turned out that they are very light and do not add weight to car keys at all. The dimensions are also quite compact.
Another advantage is that the tags look quite stylish. A kind of cool keychain that everyone pays attention to and always asks, what is that hanging on your keys?
Software. How Nut Mini works.
Despite the fact that these are just stylish keychains, their main feature is a proprietary application called Nut. Which, by the way, is available for both iOS and operating system Android.
What can this application? When you first start, you register in the system either by e-mail or by mobile number phone. After this, you will be asked to connect one of the tags to your smartphone. I explained in detail how this can be done in the video, which is located at the end of this material.
After connecting and activating the tag, you will be able to see it on the map. Now you can safely put a tag on your keys and you will never lose them. For example, you left your keys at home and went to work, and there was a disconnect with the tag. The program will show you on the map last place where is yours mobile device last time“saw” the selected label. Arriving there, launch the application and select a tag, click “Call” and listen to where your keys are. The tag beeps quite obnoxiously and loudly, so you will definitely find your keys.
Also, using a proprietary application, you have the opportunity to make friends who are also registered in the Nut system. In turn, your “friends” can help you look for those marks that are far from you. Those. if you have forgotten the keys with the mark far away, then use general access to the mark, the “friend” can “call” it and in this way he will find it.
Autonomous operating time
Each tag is powered by a C-+— battery, which is included in the kit. Popularly, such batteries are also called “tablet batteries”. As for the time battery life, then as you understand, it is quite difficult to check it.
Judging by customer comments, the tag lasts at least 3-4 months on one battery. The maximum battery life is still unknown.
Where can I buy?
I purchased these tags on AliExpress, in the SAMTAO store. Not only does this seller have the lowest price for such devices, but also when ordering there are several ordering options: one tag, two tags, three and even four. Accordingly, the more you buy, the better the price.
So I purchased two Nut Mini tags for $25.60, while four tags will only cost you $39.20. The seller SAMTAO is very sociable and very quickly answers all questions that interest you. The speed of delivery of goods is excellent, so in Dnepr (Ukraine) I received the order in 15 days. You can purchase tags using this link: http://bit.ly/2bbFn0K. Link to SAMTAO store.
Well, according to tradition, for those who were too lazy to read all this, below is a video review of Nut Mini tags. The video also talks about how to activate the tag and link it to your account. Despite the fact that in theory this is quite simple to do, in practice everything is not so rosy.
Bluetooth key tag- This is a senseless and merciless waste of money. Working in tandem with a smartphone Bluetooth protocol 4.0 bought on Aliexpress for $2.47. Please read below and figure it out with me.
The small plastic keychain is pleasant to the touch. The only controls are a large button and a gray plastic insert for a loop or keychain. A hole for an LED and a “speaker” (most likely a piezoelectric element).
Requires a CR2032 battery to operate. It is not included in the package. The battery compartment is closed with a lid, for some it opens tightly and only with a coin or the same CR2032 battery can be opened for me, or with a fingernail or by pressing a little with your finger so that it does not slip, you can turn the lid, but it will not open in your pocket.
Software.
All functionality for Android (Google Play) and iPhone (App Store) is the iTracing application. which is very simple.
1. Function - Anti-loss
It would be logical to attach this keychain to a little thing that is constantly lost in right moment find it using this mark.
How it works in theory:
1. Turn on the label
2. Connect it in the application.
3. When the connection is lost, the phone sounds a siren and the tag beeps
4. When a connection appears, you can plug it from the phone, without connecting from the button on the label
Since the tag works using the Bluetooth 4.0 protocol, this allows you to maintain communication with the tag, while the Bluetooth stack remains free and ready for connection with a headset or other device. Also, you can use up to 10 different tags at the same time.
What we have in practice:
If there is no connection for a long time, my tag continues to work, since others with no connection to the phone for more than 2 minutes turned off the tag without the ability to connect remotely.
More details.
- First start
- Adding a tag to your phone
- When the tag moves 4 - 10 meters from the phone, an alarm is triggered on the phone and on the bluetooth tag
- bluetooth tag will not disconnect and waits for a button to be pressed or the connection to be restored, which in my case is only possible in manual mode
2. Function - remind geolocation
The idea is as follows. Let's say you park your car in a large parking lot. Take the key fob, press its only button and it is saved in the application geo tag with current coordinates, which will allow you to easily find the car later. There is of course a nuance here. It is assumed that GPS is turned on and not just turned on, but “picked up by satellites”. Otherwise, the accuracy of these coordinates will be ± 500 meters, which will not help you in any way.
How does this function work in practice? If you did not turn on the tag in advance and did not manually connect it to the phone, then you need to:
- Enable Label
- Get your phone
- Launch the application
- Attach a label
- Click on bluetooth tag button
- Geotag recorded
Attention if there are no connected GPS satellites then the accuracy of the mark will not be relevant; in order to find a car, in a large parking lot, for example in the basement of the Auchan hypermarket, it is easier to photograph a parking space, here is the color of the sector and the letter and number of our row. And note this will take no more than 30 seconds. This is just one of simple ways without shamanism with a tambourine.
3. Function - take a photo
The native application has a built-in “take a photo” function - this is a simplified camera with a minimum of settings. If the tag is connected, it can be used as a trigger for taking photographs. Maybe this will be useful to someone. But in my Samsung Galaxy The S4 camera is perfectly controlled by voice, just download (Take a photo, Shoot, Smile, Shoot), even while shooting this video I say “Record video”. So this tag function seems to me to be of little use.
By the way, you can only take a photo in native app, But not all third party applications do good quality photo. And you can't take a photo unless the app is running and the camera tab is open.
4. Function - find phone
In the application settings, you can set a command for one-time or double click to the label button. Let's say we press once - the geoposition is remembered. Press twice and the phone starts beeping an alarm. This could be useful if we cannot find where we put the phone. If you haven't completely lost the label itself. But if the label was disabled, then this function will not work. It's easier and faster to call your own phone.
5. Function - turn on the voice recorder
The application has one more option - the option to enable recording on the voice recorder by pressing the tag button. Fully describes the problem
Conclusion: crap (a toy no less) I don’t see a single one myself practical way use this label for its intended purpose.
- Girl, what is the probability that when you leave your house you will meet a dinosaur?
- Fifty fifty! Either I will meet or not...
If the savvy blonde from this joke was asked about the chances of returning a stolen car, her answer would probably be the same: either they will find it or they won’t. But if the machine is equipped with a digital marker, then the situation may be different.
This is correctly called “digital marking”. That's right, in quotes. Because this technology has nothing to do with the marking “scratches” familiar to our car enthusiasts (Litex, DataDot, VIN anti-theft, Krimistop, SABR - remember?). The role of a marker here is played by a miniature Bluetooth tag with an individual digital “stamp”, a smartphone serves as a search tool, and the networks into which the hijackers must get are set up by volunteers armed with special Internet search applications (Digital Marking, Magic Systems and Car-Online), - there are already more than 7,000 users in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
How is a digital marker different from GSM beacons and other radio search devices that help combat theft? Firstly, in size: a Bluetooth transmitter is three to four times smaller than the most compact radio beacon, and you can hide it in a car more reliably than a needle in a haystack. The second difference is in the organization of the radio channel, which provides the tag better protection from standard crime jammers. The calculation here is that, when opening a car, technically savvy villains turn on a jammer aimed at the 433/868/900 and 1800 MHz bands, in which pagers, two-way alarms and various GSM annunciators operate. And in order to suppress the part of the spectrum allocated for Bluetooth transmitters, you need equipment tuned to more high frequencies(2400 MHz). This, of course, cannot be called complete protection against electronic jamming, but the trick can work.
The marker looks like a transponder key from a contactless immobilizer and is a Bluetooth transmitter with individual number, operating on an energy-saving protocol
The “blue-toothed” marker has no controls. After connecting the battery and connecting to the Internet application, the tag immediately becomes active and, thanks to the energy-saving Bluetooth LE (low energy) protocol, works without changing the battery for at least a year and a half. In an open space, the smartphone should see it at a distance of up to fifty meters (the application shows the range and direction), and the presence of contact indicates the functionality of the communication channel.
As soon as the owner of the car reports it as stolen (one click in the Internet application is enough), the online program makes the “stolen” marker visible to all smartphones with a search program. That is, everyone who has a search application installed on their smartphone and Bluetooth is turned on automatically starts searching for a stolen car. And as soon as such a smartphone approaches her within radio visibility distance (the same 50 meters), he will immediately receive a push notification (it pops up on top of all open source software), « business card» car (make, model, color, license plate number), direction and - distance to it. Additionally, the program will ask for permission to transfer information to the provider's server.