Important Notice:Upcoming price increase in Bluetooth SIG Membership Fees and DID

 The Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors(BoD) has granted its approval for a 15% increase in member fees, effective from January 1,2024. This decision comes after careful consideration of the organization's financial situation and the need to cover the rising costs of current and futrue member services throughout 2024.

Feel free to explore the mission and operations of the Bluetooth SIG by visiting the provided web pages below:

• Bluetooth SIG Vision and Mission
• Bluetooth SIG 2022 Annual Report

Raytac Corporation 勁達國際電子有限公司
A Bluetooth & WiFi module maker based on Nordic nRF53, nRF52, nRF70 solution 
www.raytac.com email: service@raytac.com Tel: +886.2.3234.0208   

nRF52 BLE Module (MDBT42 series) BQB Test & BT4.2 Certification Granted

Raytac Corporation 

Bluetooth module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(Nordic nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF52840)
Bluetooth Specification Version: BT4.0 & BT4.1 & BT4.2 & BT5

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com

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We are pleased to release that Raytac's MDBT42 series module (including MDBT42Q / MDBT42 / MDBT42V) based on Nordic nRF52 series solution has completed the BQB testing and BT4.2 certificated granted.

Customers are welcome to use or relabel the QDID accordingly.

MDBT42 Module QDID: 91882 (Declaration ID: D033661）

MDBT42 Profile Subsystem QDID: 91659 (Declaration ID: D033662)

Raytac's nRF51 Module (MDBT40/MDBT40-P) Bluetooth QDID information

Raytac Corporation

Bluetooth module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

((Nordic nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832)

Bluetooth Specification Version: BT4.0 & BT4.1 & BT4.2

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com  

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Bluetooth products must purchase DID and submit the testing evidence issued by BQE to completed the SIG registration and activate the DID

Only products's DID been activated then allowed to use Bluetooth logo.

Developer's who built the products based on Raytac module is allow to relable Raytac's DID to easy the process.

Simply purchase their own DID from SIG, and relabel Raytac's DID then can completethe Bluetooth activation process.

Raytac's MDBT40/MDBT40-P QDID/DID is applied by subsidiary of Ginstar Corporation.

The QDID is 60912 / D023258

We welcome all Raytac's customers to relabel the QDID as long as product built by MDBT40/MDBT40-P. As such, the Bluetooth process becomes simple and cost effective.

Steps to Qualify Your Bluetooth Products

Raytac Corporation

A BT4.1 & BT4.2 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF51802)

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com  
 https://raytacblog.wordpress.com/

http://bluetooth.tokyo

To qualify a Bluetooth product always the issue make people headache.

Here, we summarized the procedure become simple steps to help readers to easy to follow

From Step 3~5, we are sincerely suggest readers to entrust BQB (Bluetooth Qualify Body) to provide the professional service to save time and energy according to our experience.

STEP 1 Become a membership

https://www.bluetooth.com/membership-working-groups/why-how-to-become-a-member

Adopter Membership: Free--> "Most customers pick"

Associated Membership: US$7,500 or US$35,000 (depends on company size)

For more detail of the benefit between different membership, please visit the link as below

https://www.bluetooth.com/membership-working-groups/membership-types-levels

STEP 2. Obtain Production Information from supplier or manufacturer

Make sure your chip supplier or module manufacturer has well certified or not.

All information can be refer to SIG's QDID information in public.

Makes sure the supplier or manufacturers' QDID has well certified including both Hardware and Profile QDID

STEP 2-1. Qualify Your Products

a. Customers can log in SIG's website to create a project in Test Plan Generator.

b. Pick up the type of qualification, such as End Product/Subsystem/Component/Development tool/Test equipment...etc.)

c. Link Layer, Spec, Profile 

STEP 3. Purchase the Declaration ID (DID)

Readers can buy the DID from SIG's website directly.

STEP 4. Submit Qualification Document

The Qualification Documents must been signed by BQE (Bluetooth Qualify Engineer) by BQB

STEP 5. Create and Submit the qualification

STEP 6. Brand Your Bluetooth Product

 

Why use Raytac's BLE module (BT4.1 & BT4.2 Module) Model: MDBT40/MDBT40-P/MDBT42

Raytac Corporation

A BT4.1 & BT4.2 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF51802)

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com

Quoted from Wordpress: https://raytacblog.wordpress.com/

Why Use Raytac BLE module??

Model: MDBT40 / MDBT40-P/MDBT40ANT/MDBT42

The main reasons can be referred to 4 powerful aspects

"Size, Performance, Safety, Cost"

1. Size: 
The smallest module in the main market.
East to fit in any device without space problem.

2. Performance: (Long Working Distance or Double Battery Life Time)
Up to 80~100M communication distance in open space.
For those developers does not need such long working distance can just simply adjust the output power to enhance the battery life time in double!
Easy for mechanical design to build in or can lower down the output power to enhance the battery life time.
Easy to fulfill customer's specification requirements.

3. Safety 
Full Coverage of Safety Regulation Certified as the valued added service for our customers
Raytac module comes with full coverage of profiles for BT certification (Declaration ID, also known as DID), and agrees to relabel our DID to customers, which is the unique module provider currently proceeding like this.
Raytac module complied with FCC(USA), Telec (Japan), CE(EU), IC(Canada), SRRC (China), Taiwan (NCC). According to Module Policy of safety regulation, customer's end product build by Raytac Module does not need to apply full or part of safety testing (depends on region).

The total initial cost saving may up to US$46,100 for single BT products .

4. Cost
Fair and competitive price strategy
With the effect of economic of scale production and advanced component matching, Raytac provides a reasonable cost of BLE module to compensate all customers a low entry barrier to Bluetooth 4.0 field

Bluetooth Regulation for Co-Brand & White Labeling Issue

Raytac Corporation

A BT4.1 & BT4.2 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF51802)

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com

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According to SIG's regulation, every brand needs to have unique Declaration ID (also called as DID) for individual product.

Customer frequently pop up and ask 2 questions about Co-Brand & White Labeling

Here, we quoted SIG formal reply as below

https://bluetooth.service-now.com/ess/knowledge.do?sysparm_document_key=kb_knowledge,f46f0ad04f9202007270b3318110c755

https://bluetooth.service-now.com/ess/knowledge.do?sysparm_document_key=kb_knowledge,148d86d04f9202007270b3318110c780

1. What needs to happen when a company co-brands with another company?

Company A is selling a product that is co-branded with Company B's brand.  Do both companies need to be a member and create a Declaration?

• Company A and Company B both need to be a member of the Bluetooth SIG
• Only one company has to list the product – however, the company that is listing the product should have their brand more prominent on the packaging

Note: In addition, the Bluetooth footnote must be on the product packaging and must show that both companies are licensed to use the Bluetooth trademarks.

2. What needs for white labeling products?

White labeling is the practice of rebranding another product with your own brand.

For example, Company A manufactures or supplies Bluetooth products, and is marketing and selling these products to different companies (e.g. Company B, C, D). Company A can apply the different company's brands on the products, or the OEM can apply their own brand on the products after purchasing. What does either company need to do?

Company A, B, C, D all have to be members of the Bluetooth SIG

Company A, B, C, D all have to list the product once for their own company/brand name

Kind Reminding~Do you get DID (Declaration ID) for your products?

Raytac Corporation

A BT4.1 & BT4.2 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF51802)

www.raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

email: service@raytac.com

Quoted from Wordpress: https://raytacblog.wordpress.com/

Recently, many of our customers got in trouble in Bluetooth Trade Mark & Brand issues. The discrepancy of having the products legally Bluetooth Mark listed or lack of the Bluetooth Mark on products may result in lawsuit or bar of trading in the board between countries or markets due to the violation of Trade Mark & Brand Policy by SIG (the Bluetooth Organization)

According to the regulation activated in 2014/2/1, every brand needs to have unique Declaration ID (known as DID) for every individual product. Product is no longer can be free EPL (End Product Listing) listed under other company's QDID. Moreover, SIG recently launched the website for easy reporting the violation makes the report become a fashion.

Cost to purchased Declaration ID is heavy. (US$8,000 for Adapter Member and US$4,000 for Associate Member)

BQB testing cost, says around US$7,000, makes this even much harder and let most customers curb the decision to Bluetooth logo compliance.

For customer who is making products built by Raytac Module, please do contact us for more detail to proceed the application.

Raytac's module not only have most regional RF certificates granted by module policy, but also conduct the policy to re-label our Bluetooth certified module under the name of customer. That is, we will transfer our module under our customer's brand, and we are the only vendor in the market willing to do so. 

The brilliant point is that the Bluetooth re-label procedure comes with 9 profiles included. This will help customers much easier to have the future BT products roadmap without extra compliance costs.

Still feel anxiety for Bluetooth logo issue?

Please do not be hesitated to contact with us for more detail~

email: service@raytac.com

Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

Summary: FAQ For Nordic BLE Module (BT4.0 Module) & SIG (Bluetooth Logo) Regulation

Raytac Corporation 勁達國際電子有限公司

A BT5 & BT 4.2 & BTv4.1 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 & nRF52 solution 

(nRF51822 & nRF51422 & nRF52832 & nRF52810 & nRF52840)

www.raytac.com          email: cs@raytac.com          Tel: +886.2.3234.0208

Although Raytac has summarized most frequent questions and answers in the blog, there are still so many customers headache about sorting out the needed information.

We, hereby, listed all links as the summary in below and hope can help all readers can find the useful information in one article.

BLE Module Declaration ID (DID) and Regional RF Safety Cost Comparison Chart

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/09/declaration-id-did-and-regional-rf.html?m=1

What the Certification Cost for BT4.0 Products? Why it is cheaper if apply BT4.0 module for finished products rather than chip on board?

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/02/what-certification-cost-for-bt40.html?m=0

A Simple Summary of BT4.0 Bluetooth Certification Listing Process & Fee Revised (effected from 2014/2/1)

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/01/a-simple-summary-of-bt40-bluetooth.html?m=0

What is the influence of new BT listing process if I am building up the products based on BT4.0 Module?

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/01/what-is-influence-of-new-bt-listing.html?m=0

BT4.0 Products for MFi Program

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/05/bt40-products-for-mfi-program.html

What is Bluetooth 4.1 (BT4.1)?

http://raytaccorp.blogspot.tw/2014/04/what-is-bluetooth-41-bt41.html

Nordic BLE Module (BT4.0 Module) Released-P/N: MDBT40-P

Raytac Corporation
A BT4.1 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 solution (nRF51822 & nRF51422)
www.raytac.com
Tel: +886.2.3234.0208
email: service@raytac.com


2018/12/1 Information Updated

1.Raytac MDBT40 Series Module (Nordic nRF51 Solution) BT4.2 Certification Granted

2. Bluetooth SIG Announces Deprecation and Withdraw of Legacy Bluetooth Core Spec Version

Raytac Introduces Ultra Compact & Cost Effective Bluetooth® Low Energy Modules Using Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 series Ultra-Low Power System-on-Chip 

Raytac announced that the new cost down version of BLE module MDBT40-P has been released today.
In order to benefit all customers can easy adopt this new module, MDBT40-P are fully compatible and pip to pip design to the original one, MDBT40.

Part No.:
MDBT40-P128: nRF51822 128K
MDBT40-P256: nRF51822 256K
MDBT40ANT-P256: nRF51422 256K

Size: 1 x 1.8 x 2.7 cm (W x L x H)

Thus, all our customer who has built up the products based on MDBT40 does not need to change anything, just straightly swift to the MDBT40-P and start to enjoy the cost down effect.
(No need to modify the carrier board, no need to modify the firmware, even no need to apply safety certification again such as DID/FCC/Telec/CE)

The major difference between MDBT40 VS. MDBT40-P is the Antenna.
MDBT40-P changed the antenna component from chip antenna to printed one.With less component needed, Raytac can successfully conducted cost effective benefit to all our customers.

Comes with printed antenna version, the only demerit of MDBT40-P is the transmission distance will become 70M~80M which is around 10M shorter than original MDBT40. 
However, 70~80M transmission distance is already a superior performance over most of customer's specification required.

                             SIze (cm)        Working Distance (Open Space)

MDBT40               1 x 1.8 x 3.1              80~100 M              
MDBT40-P            1 x 1.8 x 2.7               70~80  M 

Raytac never satisfied with our current perfect result of the module performance, but continually study and find the best solution to improve in terms of cost, performance and delivery.We believed this is the best and only way we can contribute to all the customer who trust us. 

BLE Module Declaration ID (DID) and Regional RF Safety Cost Comparison Chart Updated

Raytac Corporation
A BT4.1 module maker based on Nordic nRF51 solution (nRF51822 & nRF51422)
www.raytac.com
Tel: +886.2.3234.0208
email: service@raytac.com

In order to help all customers can have easy understanding of the initial cost for Bluetooth products, Raytac Corporation updated the comparison chart as below to help those who are interested.

Pleas do not be hesitated to contact us if there is any inquiry derived.

What the Certification Cost for BT4.0 Products? Why it is cheaper if apply BT4.0 module for finished products rather than chip on board?

Raytac Corporation
A BT4.0 module maker based on Nordic nRF51822 & nRF51422 solution
www.raytac.com
Tel: +886.2.3234.0208


After SIG revised the listing process, the certification cost to develop a BT4.0 products has been increased.
To select the products built by "BT4.0 Chip on Board" or "BT4.0 Module" will result in really big difference in cost aspect latter on.
In order to help to select the best way to develop a BT4.0 related product, we listed the cost comparison chart as below


Note:
1. Declaration ID is listed based on normal condition US$8,000
 (If applicant has never applied EPL or QDID, and annual sales amount less than USD 1 million, the applicant may apply small or star-up program with Declaration ID cost US$2,500)
2. Products developed based on Chip on board: New Declaration ID needed since design and feather is changed
3. Products developed based on Chip on board: New FCC and Telec certification needed since the design and feather is changed
4. Products developed based on Module, No need to apply New Declaration ID since BT's design and feather remained no changed. Though, need to add the product in Production List under Declaration with free of charge.
5. Products developed based on Module, No need to apply New FCC & Telec since RF's design and feather remained no changed. Only need to add the product list for Telec.