Thanks to iBeacon and Eddystone, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon technologies used by Apple and Android respectively, the vast majority of mobile computing platforms are location ready.

Beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a technology built into iPhones and iPads since 2010 (and Macs since 2012) and in many higher-end Android devices since 2013. You don’t need a special ...

Apple’s iBeacons protocol, quietly released last year as part of iOS 7, has created a cottage industry of beacon makers and test deployments in retail stores, stadiums, and more as companies explore ...

Location-based services have been around for years, but recently the market heated up with the introduction of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. BLE beacons are small sensors that you can attach ...

How: Shrinking hardware and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons began as devices about the circumference of a large apple; today they’re mere stickers that can be placed on walls or objects.

The use of BLE through commonly available smartphones or tablets enabled us to eliminate a costly external component [an RFID reader] and greatly simplify the deployment.” Each truck has a GeLo ...

iBeacon is Apple's implementation of Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) wireless technology to create a different way of providing location-based information and services to iPhones and other iOS devices ...

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… ...

SAN DIEGO—Telaeris, a provider of handheld solutions for physical access control systems (PACS), has announced its new XPressEntry Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) Emergency Evacuation Mustering with ...

In 2006, Nokia introduced Wibree, which would later become Bluetooth Low Energy (or BLE). ... or beacons (BLE devices that send an ID and possibly a small amount of other data).

ABI Research has predicted that, by 2020, shipments of Bluetooth low Energy (BLE) beacons will exceed 400 million. These battery-operated Bluetooth devices are typically used to trigger an event ...