Bluetooth beacons enable proximity-based contextual awareness, but implementing beacons on a product can present some interesting design and development challenges. First, there is no official ...

Bluetooth beacons are proven technology. So why isn’t anyone using them effectively? Sure, companies are using them. Google uses “beacons” — you’ll find a slew of examples of their use in retail and ...

2015 will be the year of the beacon, as companies of all sorts begin deploying these Bluetooth nodes that (at a mininum) tell a smartphone precisely where it is so that an app can act on the specific ...

Apple released a device update weeks ago that made large improvements on existing iBeacon technology. The update allows devices to search for existing beacons without the application being open on the ...