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2. Bluetooth Low Energy beacon - Wikipedia

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   Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic devices. The technology enables smartphones, tablets and other devices to perform actions when in close proximity to a beacon. Bluetooth beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy proximity sensing to ...

3. Bluetooth Low Energy - Wikipedia

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   Bluetooth Low Energy ( Bluetooth LE, colloquially BLE, formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart [1]) is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) [2] aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, [3] security, and home entertainment industries. [4]

4. iBeacon - Wikipedia

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   iBeacon. Smartphone detecting an iBeacon transmitter. iBeacon is a protocol developed by Apple and introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 2013. [1] Various vendors have since made iBeacon-compatible hardware transmitters – typically called beacons – a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices that broadcast their ...

5. Proximity marketing - Wikipedia

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   Proximity marketing. Proximity marketing is the localized wireless distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place. Transmissions can be received by individuals in that location who wish to receive them and have the necessary equipment to do so. Distribution may be via a traditional localized broadcast, or more commonly ...

6. Nearables - Wikipedia

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   Nearables. Nearables (also nearable technology) is a term for a type of smart object, invented by Estimote Inc.. The term is used to describe everyday items that have small, wireless computing devices attached to them. These devices can be equipped with a variety of sensors and work as transmitters to broadcast digital data through a variety of ...

7. Types of beacons - Wikipedia

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   Battery powered: beacons that are battery powered range from using coin cell (or Button cell) batteries, AA, or AAA batteries; Electricity plug powered; USB powered. Types of location technology. Most beacons use bluetooth technology to communicate with other devices and retrieve the location information. Apart from bluetooth technology however ...