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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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]

5. Qualcomm Is Enabling iBeacon Adoption - AOL

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   On Monday, Qualcomm announced its Gimbal proximity beacons, which operate with Apple's iBeacon feature in iOS 7. Support for Android devices is on the way soon. Qualcomm, as a chipmaker, benefits ...

6. 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 ...

7. Apple's iBeacon - AOL

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   Macy's surprised investors by announcing it would be partnering with Shopkick to utilize Apple's iBeacon technology. iBeacon was mentioned during Apple's official iOS7 announcement, but Apple has ...

8. Eddystone (Google) - Wikipedia

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   Eddystone was a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon profile released by Google in July 2015. In December 2018 Google stopped delivering both Eddystone and Physical Web beacon notifications. The Apache 2.0-licensed, cross-platform, and versioned profile contained several frame types, including Eddystone-UID, Eddystone-URL, and Eddystone-TLM. [1]

9. Indoor positioning system - Wikipedia

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   Indoor positioning system. An indoor location tracking map on a mobile phone. An indoor positioning system ( IPS) is a network of devices used to locate people or objects where GPS and other satellite technologies lack precision or fail entirely, such as inside multistory buildings, airports, alleys, parking garages, and underground locations.