Kontakt.io Secure vs. Kontakt.io Standard – Support Center

WARNING We are discontinuing support for Firmware below 4.x with these updates.

	Kontakt.io Secure	Kontakt.io Standard
Beacon firmware	4.0 or newer	3.1 or older
Unique ID	Not available	Part of the Scan Response Packet
Eddystone	Yes	Yes
Battery-life	No impact on battery life	No impact on battery life
Software lock in Beacon firmware	Yes	Yes
Shuffling	Shuffling available, see below.	Not available
Broadcast iBeacon identifiers	Fixed: Proximity UUID Shuffled: Major, Minor, and MAC address	Fixed: Proximity UUID, Major, Minor, BeaconID, MAC-address
Broadcast Eddystone identifiers	Fixed: Namespace Shuffled: Instance ID, MAC-address	Fixed: Namespace ID, Instance ID, URL, MAC-address
Configuration method	Secure Communication: new configurations created in API as encrypted package, which is fetched, and applied in a single transmission. Beacon confirms successful config.	Configuration: new configurations created in API and fetched by the configuring device, which connects to beacon by using beacon specific password, and requires a back and forth communication for configuration of every setting.
Kontakt.io Proximity SDK	Required. Must be implemented in the app to resolve shuffled identifiers with Kontakt.io Proximity API.	Not required
Configuration can be done via?	Kontakt.io Admin Apps and/or an App that has implemented Kontakt.io Proximity SDK 2.0	Kontakt.io Admin Apps and/or 3rd party app by using the beacon-specific passwords.

If you would like to learn how to upgrade the firmware of your beacons visit this tutorial.