'Elegy for forgotten sounds' installation at the Concert Hall of Bruges
This is a guest post by Frederic Schroyens from The Reference digital agencyElegy for forgotten sounds is an art installation at the Concert Hall of Bruges commemorating World War I. It allows visitors...
View ArticleApple, Google and the State of the Enterprise Beacon Market
In the first year after its release there was a narrative around Apple iBeacon that public deployments weren’t progressing at lightning speed like some people were expecting when the framework...
View ArticleNew Estimote Beacon firmware available, now with improved security
At Estimote, we maintain a philosophy that software is never complete. We optimize for shipping updates often, to every part of our stack (firmware, mobile SDK’s, cloud back-end & API’s)....
View ArticleEstimote’s Location Intelligence Platform: Bringing Together Nearables,...
Today we’re excited to announce the next big evolution of the Estimote platform: we’ve integrated Estimote Indoor Location, Estimote Stickers, and Estimote Cloud to unlock even more...
View ArticleHow Beacons Change Hotels and Hospitality
This is a guest post by Kim Adams, Marketing Coordinator at GuestDriven.Hotel stays are inherently physical experiences. As such, hoteliers have a need to manage communication, engagement and service...
View ArticleWhat's cooking in Estimote SDK: configurable stickers settings, iOS 9...
It’s been a while since we last talked about the Estimote SDK, so sit down, relax, and let us take you on a tour of what we’ve been up to these past few releases. Configurable stickers settings and iOS...
View ArticleCreating a hive mind: why are we building a developer community?
You probably already know that Estimote is a developer-oriented company. But we’re not just building things for developers. We’re building things with developers. We’ve been fostering a community...
View ArticleFC Barcelona builds smart spaces in Camp Nou with beacons
FC Barcelona is an icon: a symbol for locals in Catalonia and the best football team in the world for millions of fans across the globe. But Barça doesn’t only lead on the pitch. As part of the Smart...
View ArticleTownsquare Media iBeacon Music Festival Tour
This is a guest post by Sun Sachs, SVP Product, Design & Engineering at Townsquare MediaWe recently completed our first Summer music festival season setting up Estimote Beacons at our largest music...
View ArticleIntroducing App Templates in Estimote Cloud: fewer meetings, more prototypes
Bringing a new product to life often starts with a meeting between designers, product managers, engineers, and businesspeople. Meetings can accomplish a lot, but they can also distract from the actual...
View ArticleBringing your Estimote Beacons to life with Rover just got easier
This is a guest post by John Coombs, Co-founder and CEO at RoverRover is pleased to announce the launch of the Rover iOS App - another step in bringing your Estimote hardware to life. With the Rover...
View ArticleHow to build beautiful apps with GoodBarber and Estimote Beacons with no...
This is a guest post by Jerome Granados, CMO at GoodBarberBeacons are the perfect tool to enhance UX, and providing an exciting user experience has always been at the core of GoodBarber. Offering...
View ArticleThe future of apps for the physical world
Software applications of the future will not be developed just for mobile phones, tablets or desktop computers. They will not be optimized for Android, iOS or Windows. They won’t be tested to run on...
View ArticleMap spaces quickly and accurately with the new Estimote Indoor Location app
The holy grail of contextual computing is accurate and scalable indoor location. We’ve been on the quest to bring it to you for over a year already and are excited to announce another milestone: new...
View ArticleLarger, Better, Faster, Stronger: Estimote Indoor Location now lets you map...
We need it to scale better to work in very large spaces. We’ve been hearing that feedback a lot since we launched Indoor Location SDK back in 2014. No wonder: airports, shopping malls, hospitals, these...
View ArticleLaunching the Most Robust Location Beacons on the Market
More than two years ago, developers around the world received the first Estimote Development Kits and started experimenting with proximity, microlocation, and contextual computing. We were the first...
View ArticleRealityHack Challenge #3: Reinvent the Workplace (Estimote + Slack API)
Have you ever imagined how the workspace of the future would look like? Now you have a chance to build it yourself! We’re excited to announce the latest edition of our RealityHack open source app...
View ArticleEstimote SDK 4.0 has landed
We recently launched Estimote Location Beacons: our new flagship hardware with a host of exciting additions. They’ll start shipping later this month, but the SDK with support for all the new goodies is...
View ArticleHow Can Beacons Facilitate Wayfinding while Traveling?
This is a guest post by Alexandru Chiuariu, an Inbound Marketer at BeaglecatAirports and bus terminals can be very confusing, especially for first-time travelers. One way to go around this is to use...
View ArticleMuseum visitors want a conversation: bringing apps and UX design into an...
Museums are changing. Many of them, with interactive installations, companion apps, and digital content, have gone through complete transformation over the years. New York’s Brooklyn Museum is at the...
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