GCell Launches World's First Indoor Solar Powered iBeacon

GCell Launches World's First Indoor Solar Powered iBeacon

NEWPORT, Wales, April 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    GCell announces entry into the iBeacon hardware market with their G100 Indoor Solar
Beacon. The World's first energy harvesting iBeacon offers a renewable energy supply and a
100-millisecond advertising rate as default.

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    The G100 Indoor Solar Beacon is an enterprise grade iBeacon aimed at large-scale
deployments.  It has the longest lifespan.

    The number of beacons deployed Worldwide has exceeded six million, according to
proximity marketing directory http://www.Proxbook.com. The use of beacons throughout
airports, cinemas, hotels, retail stores and sports stadia allow the broadcasting of
Bluetooth signals that a smartphone can receive and understand. This makes it possible for
brands and venues to communicate with audiences at a precise location at the time of their
visit.

    Utilising their expertise in energy harvesting GCell plans to overcome one of the
major challenges constraining the mass adoption of iBeacon since Apple introduced the
technology in June 2013.

    Professor Michael Gratzel, recipient of the 2012 Albert Einstein World Award of
Science and the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize for inventing Dye Sensitised Cells,
 commented "I am delighted that GCell have introduced the World's first indoor solar
powered iBeacon. GCell continue to lead the way for the use of indoor photovoltaics. I
anticipate that this is the first of a series of indoor wireless beaconing and smart
sensor devices powered by a renewable energy source."

    Barry Jenkins from GCell remarked "We have been patiently watching the iBeacon
ecosystem to mature. We quickly recognised that battery-life is one of the biggest
challenges for iBeacon industry growth. Initially Beacon hardware vendors used small coin
cell batteries typically lasting less than a year. Each time a beacon requires a
replacement battery there is an associated service cost that adds to the total cost of
ownership."

    The G100 Indoor Solar Beacon uses a renewable energy source to enable broadcasting at
the Apple iBeacon standard of 100-milliseconds advertising rate for the life of the
product. The higher advertising rate allows application developers to target users and
navigate indoors more accurately.

    The introduction of the G100 Indoor Solar Beacon will see GCell partner with proximity
platform providers and indoor location service providers to benefit the enterprise, retail,
sports and leisure applications of iBeacon.

    Pre-orders for GCell Beacon Development Kits are being taken at the website
http://www.ibeacon.solar. Additional GCell Beacon products are set to be launched
later in 2016.

    About GCell 

    GCell is the brand leader in the design, manufacture and introduction of disruptive
technologies for use in portable consumer electronics, wireless sensing and autonomous
beaconing devices. GCell is making disposable batteries obsolete with the use of energy
harvesting, ultra-low power electronics and hybrid energy solutions. GCell's commitment to
innovation in autonomous ambient intelligence gives users the freedom to disconnect from
mains power and not be restricted by the limitations of batteries.

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        Contact 

         
        Barry Jenkins 
        T: +44(0)-1633-654-206 
        E: barry.jenkins@gcell.com

         

     

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