With the launch of the Raspberry Pi 3, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is now at our disposal. With BLE, there are a few technologies for implementing one-way beacons that broadcast data. Apple has been ...

Google today introduced a number of new products around Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons in an effort to challenge Apple’s iBeacon ecosystem. These new products include a new open beacon format, ...

Bluetooth® beacons are taking off. They enable “proximity-aware applications” for customers, businesses, and industrial environments. – End customers benefit through instant coupons and tailored ...

Bluetooth beacons enable proximity-based contextual awareness, but implementing beacons on a product can present some interesting design and development challenges. First, there is no official ...

In the business world, asset tracking takes many different forms. The process of monitoring the location of equipment, devices, and other assets is necessary across a wide range of industries, because ...

The Tenna BLE Beacon is a Bluetooth, low energy beacon that transmit signals every three seconds to transmit an asset's location. It is ideal for tracking tools, smaller equipment or any mid-sized, ...

Apple introduced the iBeacon protocol in 2013 as a way for Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) devices to transmit location information to a Bluetooth-enabled device, such as a smartphone or tablet. While ...

Google today launched Eddystone, a new open format for Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacons to communicate with people’s devices. To help developers build apps using this technology, Google is also ...

Bluetooth refers to the technology in cellphones, earbuds, laptops and other smaller electronic devices that enables them to connect to networks. This same technology is used in Bluetooth beacons, ...

Recently my family and I went on an East Coast road trip. We visited 4 major cities – Philadelphia, Washington D.C., New York City, and Niagara Falls Ontario – within the space of a week. Apps like ...

Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us ...