Fujitsu Component Expands IoT Front End Devices : Beacons and Mesh Units

Fujitsu Component Limited (Head office: Tokyo, Japan, President and Representative Corporate Officer, CSO : Masahiro Kinoshita) announced it has developed beacons and sensor embedded beacons correspond to Bluetooth® version 5.0, as well as mesh units and mesh sensor units using Wirepas Mesh technology, as an IoT front-end device, and is starting to provide samples and mass production from December 2019.

FWM8BLZ07A

An IoT front-end device, which is use for asset tracking or collection of sensor data from environmental monitoring system, is essential for various IoT solutions. Fujitsu Component launches Bluetooth version 5.0 beacons and sensor embedded beacons, and mesh units/mesh sensor units that grant scalable, reliable and cost effective IoT solutions. All these products embeds ‘battery voltage notification function’, which notifying voltage drop of coin-cell battery, users may figure out the right timing of battery replacement.

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Beacons/Sensor embedded beacons correspond to Bluetooth version 5.0

Fujitsu Component’s beacons and sensor embedded beacons corresponds to Bluetooth version 5.0 enables less power consumption for data communication, improvement of communication speed, expansion of LE advertisement’s communication capacity and number of channels compared with our Bluetooth 4.1 beacons. In addition, Fujitsu original command set enables various remote setting from a host device easily.

The beacon FWM8BLZ07 embeds secure advertise function. It enables encryption of advertise data and anti-spoofing by Message Authentication Code (MAC) calculation for a secured communication. This product is suitable for issuing coupons at shops, asset or human activity tracking.

The sensor embedded beacon FWM8BLZ07A equips temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, illuminance, 3-axis acceleration and sound level sensors by default.

Mesh units/Mesh sensor units correspond to Wirepas Mesh technology

Mesh units/Mesh sensor units have ability to construct a large scale network. Not only the scale, the Wirepas Mesh technology Fujitsu Component has introduced enables to create power saving, high-density network under autonomous network rerouting, even if the network environment changes or device failure occurs. Furthermore, security key provides secure operating environment throughout the mesh network.

Mesh unit FWM8BLZ07P is the best for wide-area asset tracking. It has wake-up function that allows to start communication only when needed, for a further energy saving operation.

Mesh sensor unit FWM8BLZ07Y embeds temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, illuminance, 3-axis acceleration and sound level sensors by default. It is good for massive scale of sensor data collection system.

Fujitsu Component will continuously develop IoT connectivity solution and devices for various applications for serving to customer's need.

Schedule

Bluetooth version 5.0 beacons/sensor beacons
- Samples: Available now
- Mass production: February 2020 (plan)
Mesh units/mesh sensor units
- Samples : January 2020 (plan)
- Mass production : March 2020 (plan)

Price

Open price

Specifications (Bluetooth version 5.0 beacons/sensor embedded beacons)

Item	Specifications
Product name	Beacon	Sensor embedded beacon
Part number	FWM8BLZ07	FWM8BLZ07A
Bluetooth technology	Bluetooth Core Specification Version 5.0 (LE single mode)
Antenna	Embedded (pattern antenna)
Transmission level	-16, -12, -8, -4, 0, +4 dBm (changeable by command)
IC	Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832
Power supply	Coin-cell Lithium battery CR2450 (not included)
Operating temperature/humidity	-30degC to +60degC, 20 to 80% RH
Sensors	-	Temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, illuminance, 3-axis acceleration, sound level
Dimensions/weight	40.0 x 31.0 x 12.0 mm / Approx. 10g　(excluding coin-cell battery)
Certifications	Radio Act (Japan), FCC, ISED, CE
Others	Battery voltage notification function
Others	Secure advertise function	Secure advertise function ^{(Note 1)}

Note 1: encryption of advertise data is not available by the secure advertise function.

Specifications (Mesh units/mesh sensor units)

Item	Specifications
Product name	Mesh unit	Mesh sensor unit
Part number	FWM8BLZ07P	FWM8BLZ07Y
Mesh technology	Wirepas Mesh
Antenna	Embedded (pattern antenna)
Transmission level	Max. +4 dBm (adjusted automatically for mesh network)
IC	Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832
Power supply	Coin-cell Lithium battery CR2450 (not included)
Operating temperature/humidity	-30degC to +60degC, 20 to 80% RH
Sensors	3-axis acceleration ^{(Note 2)}	Temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, illuminance, 3-axis acceleration, sound level
Dimensions/weight	40.0 x 31.0 x 12.0 mm / Approx. 10g　(excluding coin-cell battery)
Certifications	Radio Act (Japan), FCC, ISED, CE
Others	Battery voltage notification function

Note 2: Used for wake-up function. Data collection capability is not available.

Reference

[Press release] Fujitsu Component Launches Bluetooth^® 5 Wireless Modules
[Press release] Fujitsu Components selects Wirepas Mesh for advanced IoT solution development

Wirepas Mesh enables wireless IoT networking at massive scale. It is a de-centralized IoT network protocol that can be used to connect, locate and identify lights, sensors, beacons, assets, machines and meters in cities, buildings, industry, logistics and energy – with unprecedented scale, density, flexibility and reliability. It can be used on any radio hardware and on any frequency band. Wirepas has its headquarters in Tampere, Finland and offices in Australia, France, Germany, India, South Korea, the UK and the United States. Things connected – Naturally

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