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SDK 4.0, Location Beacons, and Configuration template: making beacon...
In March we’ve released SDK 4.0 with a host of killer features designed specifically for Location Beacons. New beacons are already shipping (by the way: give them a try and order a devkit) so we want...
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Stepping up the Estimote Indoor Location game: now it works in the...
Recently we introduced our new Location Beacons. Wondering what’s coming next? You already know about SDK 4.0, so it’s time to talk about the Indoor Location SDK and how Location Beacons bring new...
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Introducing support for Eddystone Ephemeral IDs to make Eddystone more secure
At Estimote we take security of beacon infrastructure very seriously. Early on we introduced Secure UUID on top of iBeacon to prevent malicious use and spoofing of beacons. Many of our large enterprise...
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SDK 4.0 and more fleet management goodies to tame your beacon network
Recently we’ve shown you how Configuration template can take some weight off your shoulders with large-scale beacon deployments. But that’s not all Estimote SDK 4.0 has for you in the fleet management...
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Workplace reinvented: RealityHack #3 comes to a close
In February we asked you to build an open source app that integrates Estimote Beacons or Stickers with Slack API. RealityHack #3 was all about ideas for an office that’s both smarter and more fun to...
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How Beacons Help Businesses Win the Engagement Game
This is a guest post by Jody Cumberpatch, Director of Marketing & Content at Stealz.All businesses want to find new & innovative ways to engage with guests – especially if they improve customer...
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Measuring your visitors’ engagement with the next-generation Estimote...
It’s always been our vision at Estimote to create the operating system for the real world. One of the unique characteristics we’d like to bring from the online world is the ability to measure users’...
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Fall of friction: Google’s foray into beacons is a supercharger for...
When Apple released iBeacon in 2013 it initiated a two year head start over Google in the world of contextual computing. However, Google’s announcements at its I/O event yesterday signaled that they...
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How to ask users for permission to use Location Services?
Peculiar times we live in. We’re happy to share our lives through social networks, letting Facebooks and Twitters of the world gather our personal information and yet we’ve become extremely vocal about...
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We’re hacking one of world's largest entertainment venues. RealityHack @...
Our neighborhood, the beautiful city of Kraków, is also home to one of the world’s largest and most modern entertainment venues: TAURON Arena Kraków. The Arena has hosted Elton John, Katy Perry, and...
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Extending the power of your beacons with GPIO connection
Have you ever thought about powering your beacons externally? Connecting them with another smart device? Wanted to customize Bluetooth data packets? You can do all of that now!We’ve already covered...
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Disrupting healthcare with beacons & IoT
This is a guest post by Giancarlo De Lio, Chief Visionary Officer at iUGO HealthIt seems like everything around us has been disrupted to no end: the way you eat or take a taxi, short and long-term...
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Announcing next-gen Proximity Beacons with programmable NFC and improved...
Mere months after introducing Location Beacons, we’re now updating our Proximity Beacons with new hardware and firmware, as well! We added programmable NFC, made it 30% more energy efficient (which...
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We just made hardware upgrades as easy as updating software
CIOs, CTOs, and all flavors of decision makers dread hardware updates. And for good reason. Imagine you set up a new Wi-Fi infrastructure in your office. A few weeks later, a Wi-Fi standard changes. It...
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Nearables join the Physical Web family
Context is key to building an amazing user experience for the physical world. Two years ago, we introduced Estimote Stickers to enrich location context with information about nearby objects. A small...
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Six must-dos to increase engagement of your proximity campaigns
This is a guest post by Tomasz Rupik, Co-Founder of BleeskAt Bleesk we work with various companies that take advantage of proximity marketing, whether they are large shopping malls, retail chains, or...
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Estimote introduces Here & Now - the messaging technology for the physical world
Ever since iBeacon launched, the gap between the online and the offline world has been closing. The release of Physical Web eliminated the need for a dedicated, app and lowered the barrier of entering...
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Physical-world context 101: Proximity vs Location
There’s a ton of beacon use cases, each of them unique in needs, goals, and audience. Talking to a vast community of developers helped us crystalize these needs. To tailor our stack towards them,...
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Using nearables to tell better stories
We love stories. People have stories, places have stories, even something as arcane to an average person as agile software development relies on so called user stories. That’s because stories are how...
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Updated Location Beacons: 200 m range, NFC, new APIs, and more
After we introduced the next generation of Proximity Beacons, many of you asked if we were adding NFC support to Location Beacons as well. Today, we’re refreshing our flagship line of beacons with a...
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