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Beacons

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• Beacon is continuous Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

transmitter device with unique identifier at a known place.

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• BlueCats
• BlueSense
• Estimote
• Gelo
• Kontact
• Sonic Notify

The beacons manufacturers

• http://estimote.com/

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• iBeacon: protocol developed by apple in 2013
• AltBeacon: open source protocol developed by Radius

Network in 2014

• Eddystone: protocol developed by Google in 2015
• … and many propriatary protocols

The beacons protocols

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• Estimote Monitoring
• default protocol in both Location and Proximity Beacons
• Estimote Connection
• to connect to a beacon and change its settings
• Estimote Location
• new packet, designed specifically to work with the Estimote Indoor

Location SDK.

• Estimote Telemetry
• broadcasts information from sensors
• Nearable
• Used in Estimote Stickers to include more sensor data in a single

packet

• iBeacon : Apple

Beacons protocols supported by Estimotes

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Beacons protocols supported by Estimotes

• Eddystone UID
• Broadcasts an identifying code that allows apps to retrieve

information from app servers

• Eddystone EID
• Eddystone URL
• broadcasts a URL that redirects to a website that is secured using

SSL

• Eddystone TLM
• Broadcasts information about the beacon: battery level, sensor

data, etc.

• Generic Advertiser
• Used to configure packets
• Here & Now
• Allows you to use the Physical Web to broadcast short messages

to devices with the Physical Web protocol enabled

iBeacons protocol

• Broadcast one advertising packet:
• (UUID, Major, Minor)

Can broadcast three different packets:

Eddystone packet

http://iosandi.blogspot.ch/2015/12/in-addition-to-my-previous-post-i-have.html

• Retail/details

Uses cases

• http://blog.mowowstudios.com/2015/02/100-use-cases-

examples-ibeacon-technology/

• Indoor positioning

Uses cases

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVvPZRFd1I