Indoor asset location enabled by Bluetooth chips from Silicon Labs

Digital asset management is further simplified by the availability of Bluetooth-based location services. Semiconductor chip maker Silicon Labs is providing module and chips to support the design of Bluetooth location services. Low-power consuming Silicon Labs' BG22 SiP modules and SoC chips can operate for up to ten years on a single coin cell battery, with advanced software that can track assets, improve indoor navigation, and better locate tags with sub-meter accuracy. Borda Technology has developed products using Silicon Labs Ics for Healthcare application for managing health facility assets such as medical electronic equipments and other Bluetooth tagged patient tools, systems and devices. It can also be used for Patient Throughput Management and Patient Flow, Patient Safety, and more through real-time location services (RTLS). "As the largest, pure-play IoT company in the world, we focus on providing complete wireless IoT solutions for the edge, including silicon, software, tools, and support," said Daniel Cooley, CTO of Silicon Labs. "Today's new Bluetooth location services offering further proves our belief that we can deliver differentiated solutions to our customers by thinking of IoT as a complete platform, rather than a singular piece of hardware." Technology based on these chips help industry's where thousands of parts equipments and things are distribute...