Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker

Tile mate is little one square inches, very thin Bluetooth tracker. It can easily be hooked up with any of your valuables and then with your Phone, you can track the item.

Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 1
Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 2

CE logo is not correct so I am not sure if this is the original or clone. From inside circuitry looks original.

When you open the tracker, you will find a small PCB with coin cell battery (Maxell CR2025 3V), one Piezo buzzer is connector to the PCB using two spring pins.

Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 3
Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 4

Main controller is Dialog Semiconductors Ultra low power Bluetooth SoC DA14580.

Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 5

There are 3 more chips used on the PCB but I was not able to find out which IC details by their part numbers. My best guess is these chips could be for Memory storage, power supply.

Back side of the PCB doesn’t have much just the test points.

Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 6

Some more close up pictures of these ICs

  • Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 7
  • Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 8
  • Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 9
  • Teardown of Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 10

I hope you found this teardown useful and learned something new!

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