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Beacon Hardware Key Players Continuing our Beacon study, here we are with the second article on Beacons. In this we primarily discuss various key players for Beacon Hardware. There are a number of Beacon / i-Beacon hardware vendors and some are listed below, along with their capabilities and use cases. Estimote: Estimote Beacons are small wireless sensors that can be located at any location or can be attached with an object. These are basically used for proximity application to get nearby locations and objects, objects type, ownership, approximate location, temperature and...

Available Beacon: iBeacons Vs Eddystone In this article, I am sharing Beacon Technology- iBeacons Vs Eddystone and is comparison Apple’s iBeacons iBeacon is a brand name created by Apple inc. , that was first presented at the World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) 2014 as part of Apple’s iOS 7. It lets Apple phones that are using iOS7 (or newer versions) constantly scan the environment for beacons over Bluetooth. When the smartphone identifies a beacon it can open relevant apps even if the app is closed. This makes Apple’s iBeacons solutions...

There are a number of wireless technologies available for the Internet of things. These are mainly divided into two categories: Short Range (Zigbee, WiFi, Bluetooth, Z wave) Long Range (LoRa, SigFox, NB-IoT ) NB – IoT refers to the technology of the narrowband Internet of things a cellular IoT technology developed as part of 3GPP Release 13 and Release 14. To know more about NB-IoT do read our post following post Narrow Band LTE- NB-IoT In this post, we will be discussing the vendors who are developing the Chipset for...