User's Guide

Confidex 2021
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7 Confidex Runestone™
beacon field configure app
Confidex Viking™ Bluetooth® Low-Energy (BLE) Industrial
beacons track the location of assets and people, with
optional sensors for capturing environmental data.
Confidex Viking™ beacons are joining passive RFID in the
asset management and tracking space. It is a new way to
track that comes with tradeoffs in battery life and cost
against improved functionality. Confidex designed the
Viking product family to be a modular BLE beacon family
that raises the bar for indoor and outdoor industrial asset
tracking to gain real time location and conditioning
visibility.
Confidex Viking™ beacons are designed with security in
mind and have integrated secure NFC interface with
unique identity keys for configuration. They do not allow
changing of configuration through the Bluetooth interface.
Confidex Viking™ beacons are turned on/off through the
NFC interface, which prevents tampering with the beacons
in public environments.
Confidex Viking
TM
beacons are delivered turned off
(according IATA regulations), and they can be activated
and operated with Confidex Runestone
TM
mobile
application for Android mobile phones.
CONFIDEX RUNESTONE
TM
MOBILE APP
General information
Confidex Runestone
TM
mobile app is a specific application
used to operate the Confidex Viking
TM
beacons with
Confidex standard firmware. By using the Confidex
Runestone
TM
App, the user can turn the Confidex Viking™
beacons on/off, read beacon parameters and configure
the parameters over the phone NFC interface.
Supported Android version and phone models
Confidex Runestone
TM
app is developed for all mobile
phones running on Android operating system version 7 or
higher. Due to different NFC chipsets and android OS
implementations by mobile phone manufacturers,
Confidex cannot guarantee proper NFC interface
operation on all Android devices.
The Android mobile phone needs to have NFC read/write
functionality. Confidex have tested correct operation
with Samsung models S5 - S20, Google Pixel 2, Nokia 3,
Honor 9X lite, Huawei P30 Lite. Before deployment of the
beacons, it is highly recommended to 1
st
install and test
the Confidex Runestone
TM
app on your Android mobile
phone to verify proper NFC functionality with Confidex
Viking
TM
beacons. Please turn to Confidex for updated list
of validated Android devices.
Download and installation
The latest version of Confidex Runestone
TM
app can be
downloaded and installed from the Google Play store.
After successful installation and launching of the Confidex
Runestone
TM
app on your Android mobile phone, it will
request permissions for using Bluetooth connection
which need to be granted for proper operation.
NFC and BLE operation
Confidex Viking
TM
beacon BLE interface is configured to
non-connectable broadcast mode and the Confidex
Runestone
TM
app communicates only over the wireless
NFC interface with the beacon. Therefore, the user needs
to ensure that NFC functionality of the mobile phone is
turned on. It is typically found in under phone Settings ->
Connections -> NFC and Payment or quick access from
top of the screen next to WiFi and Bluetooth activation.
Confidex Viking™ identity keys
To be able to read and configure the Confidex Viking
TM
beacons, the identity of each beacon must be known by
the Confidex Runestone
TM
app. The installed app does
not contain any Confidex Viking™ beacon identities by
default before first importing an identity file (csv format)
including the corresponding keys. Confidex provides one
identity file for all beacons with each order. You can also
request it from [e-mail].
Download the latest free version of Confidex
Runestone
TM
application from Google Play Store.