Tinkering with three beacons is one thing, deploying thousands over hundreds of locations is another. Yet another thing is operating a fleet of beacons. That’s why we developed remote fleet management that ensures any change to beacons’ configuration happens automatically, and the Estimote Deployment app, which made hardware upgrades as easy as updating software.
But robust as the beacons are, there will always be things you didn’t foresee. That’s why today we’re adding Beacon Health Check to the mix, so that you’re notified if your beacon falls off a wall, is stolen, is running low on battery, or stops broadcasting altogether.
Our latest beacons, i.e. Location Beacons and Proximity Beacons with NFC, can broadcast our own Estimote Telemetry packet that is picked up by Estimote SDK. The telemetry data is then forwarded to Estimote Cloud, which constantly monitors and analyzes it to determine if everything is fine with your beacons. In case our algorithms detect a problem, you will receive an email and a notification in Estimote Cloud.
Since Beacon Health Check relies on the hardware and software innovations we have come up with, it requires either Location Beacons or Proximity Beacons with NFC and Estimote SDK to work. Apps integrated with Estimote SDK handle monitoring. It’s completely hassle-free and secure: it requires no action from the beacon owner or app’s user, has negligible impact on battery, and cannot be used to collect any data other than beacon telemetry.
Beacon Health Check is available to our enterprise software-as-a-service customers, if you want to use fleet monitoring please contact business@estimote.com
Bartek Bałaziński, Product Manager at Estimote