Beacons equipped with buttons allow an end-user to trigger an action that gets reported to Kio Cloud via the beacon telemetry.
Buttons allow signaling among others events including, when an end-user requests attention, when an asset has been found, or when a panic situation has occurred.
When a button is pressed, a counter-event in the beacon telemetry is increased and the time since the last event is zeroed to signal that it was a new event occurrence. This information is available via the telemetry endpoints.
A long press, holding a button for 5 seconds, sets the device into sleep mode, maximizing power saving, until another long press is performed that wakes the device. If the device must always remain in operation, no sleep or wake events, this function can be disabled in the device configuration options to prevent accidental usage.
Pressing a button always wakes up the device from power-saving or sleep mode, and it broadcasts the Kontakt.io Secure Profile frame for 60 seconds that allows a connection to the device due to the temporary increase in advertisement frequency.
For devices with multiple buttons, any of button can be used to wake the device up. The telemetry counters are separate for the buttons, allowing the user to know which button has been pressed.
On the Portal Beam, the button additionally lets the device reset its thermal camera to immediately take a new image.