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How Sephora uses beacons and Eventfuel to run events smooth

This is a guest post by Niko Roberts, Co-founder & CEO at EventfuelYou might already know that global fashion brand Sephora are renowned for running some of the best customer-facing events in the...

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Estimote Monitoring — more reliable notifications for beacon-based apps

Recently, we told you about two approaches to physical-world context: Proximity vs Location, and praised the simplicity of the former—“tag” a certain area with a beacon and your app can detect when the...

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Estimote Beacon Health Check - peace of mind for your fleet

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...

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Launching Estimote Mirror – the world’s first video-enabled beacon

Dear Developers in the Estimote Community,Three years ago we kicked off the contextual computing era by shipping you the first Estimote Beacons. With our simple mobile SDKs, we enabled the creation of...

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Building a REALLY cross-functional team with customer journey

Tech companies often kid themselves they have cross-functional teams. But if you have, say, a mobile app team that has a product owner, iOS plus Android developers, and a mobile UI specialist… where’s...

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Implementing the cross-functional team structure, and lessons we learned...

On talking, doing, and painA couple weeks back, we published a story about restructuring Estimote to create a more cross-functional team layout centered around customer context. Now it’s time for part...

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Announcing Automatic Beacon Firmware Update

As Alan Kay once said, “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”We strongly believe in this idea, and put it into practice daily. That’s why we build a...

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Our latest innovation: Beacon Storage API!

Estimote Beacons appeared on the market as simple broadcasting devices. Over the years, they’ve become smarter and more powerful—capable of locally processing dynamically generated data from sensors or...

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Download the know-how: expanding App Templates into entire use-cases

It’s been almost a year since we introduced App Templates in Estimote Cloud. Every week, developers from the Estimote Community use them to generate hundreds of apps. It’s the fastest way to learn the...

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Bring life to your apps with precise user positioning

Existing technologies work fairly well when helping consumers extract value from their locations… except when they are indoors. You can find the nearest drugstore with Google Maps, but it won’t help...

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Announcing free developer access to the entire Estimote software stack

Despite being a hardware startup, Estimote has always been equally focused on software services as we’ve been on hardware. Estimote Indoor Location, Fleet Management, Security, Analytics… all have very...

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Want to work with Clear Channel? Come and show what you can hack with...

This is a guest post by Pilvi Rissanen, Brand Manager Finland at Clear Channel, and Annina Koskiola, CEO and co-founder of Proximi.ioClear Channel is the world leader in the arena of Digital Out of...

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Estimote Monitoring 1.1 - Improved User Enter and Exit Notifications

In August, we introduced the first version of Estimote Monitoring, with an improvement to microlocation experiences and more developer control over what happens when users enter/exit the beacon’s range...

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Introducing the world’s first BLE mesh networking that lasts years on battery...

The Internet of Things is making the physical world more connected—a mission very dear to us here at Estimote. This is why yesterday in London, we were proud to share our latest innovation with the...

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Beacons can now last forever - Introducing Clustering

Here at Estimote, we believe that beacon infrastructure management should be extremely simple. From the very first version of Estimote Beacons, we’ve put a lot of effort to make this true. One of the...

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Estimote Beacons with UWB can now automatically create floor plans

At Estimote, we believe software of the future will not be created for phones, computers, or tablets. It won’t be inspired by the 4.7 or 12.9 inch piece of glass sitting in our pockets, or on our...

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Searching for hidden treasure with Locatify and Estimote Beacons

We LOVE games here at Estimote. We even have a company-wide game night once a month! Ever hear of playing a game on your smartphone that requires being in a special place at a very specific moment in...

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Estimote year-end summary and our plans for 2017

Our vision at Estimote is bold—to create an operating system for the physical world. A software environment that is easy to set up and allows anyone to quickly build and share apps, interacting with...

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Let Estimote do the heavy lifting, with firmware updates over mesh!

Beacons can help deliver context to the physical world seamlessly. They allow you to build intelligent mobile apps, and deliver relevant information for a specific place and time. We like to call it a...

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RedBull partners with BYBORRE and Nearables for an ultra-sensory experience

RedBull and clubbing. They go together like… well, like Redbull and clubbing! Haven’t you ever crushed a can of RedBull and proceeded to dance your face off to house music? But check it out: in an...

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