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Beacon Hardware Decisions

Beacon Hardware Decision Beacon provides us the ability to create applications which are location aware, context aware and personalized. This is the data which cannot be faked. Beacons come in different shapes and sizes. Since they all need to be based on iBeacon specification, it seems that we can be provider agnostic here. Had this… Continue reading »

Bluetooth Smart Beacon Specifications

Why Different Beacon Specifications? Apple released iBeacon with iOS 7. iOS is a very big segment of smart phone users but there is a big market for android and other OSes as well. As apple made it difficult for the iBeacon manufacturers for providing SDKs for Android, they came up with alternate specifications as a… Continue reading »