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Beacons • 1

Beacon is continuous Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) • transmitter device with unique identifier at a known place. • 2

The beacons manufacturers BlueCats • BlueSense • Estimote • Gelo • Kontact • Sonic Notify • • 3

• http://estimote.com/

The beacons protocols 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 • • 5

Beacons protocols supported by Estimotes 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 • • 6

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 • 7

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

Eddystone packet Can broadcast three different packets: http://iosandi.blogspot.ch/2015/12/in-addition-to-my-previous-post-i-have.html

Uses cases - Retail/details • http://blog.mowowstudios.com/2015/02/100-use-cases- examples-ibeacon-technology/

Uses cases - Indoor positioning • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVvPZRFd1I