The icon of modern art puts Estimote beacons on display
No doubt, you’ve heard of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. A multi-level structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the art museum takes in over a million visitors a year. But did you know that...
View ArticleTesco and Estimote, pioneering grocery stores of the future
Ever shop at a Tesco? If you live in Asia or Europe, it’s more than likely you’re familiar with it! After all, Tesco is the third largest retailer in the world: a major grocery store chain with...
View ArticleHow Mirror works: first look at developing for Mirror
We’re getting closer to ship the first dev kits of Mirror, the world’s first video beacon, and we want to take this opportunity to start introducing you to the Mirror technology.In this post, we’ll...
View ArticlePiloting 2hr beacon delivery in London
Need beacons? Need them, like… right now? Well, we’ve got some pretty exciting news: we’re testing out a new shipping method to go from 4 days to 2 hours. Wowza!Not to brag, but we’re already pretty...
View ArticleYour most pressing Indoor Location questions, answered!
Ever since we launched Indoor Location, we’ve received lots of questions from you, our loyal clients and developers. You contacted us with some fantastic use cases, many of which were very successful....
View ArticleRemote fleet management — scale is no challenge
Beacon technology is maturing. Our team at Estimote is seeing more and more deployments using 1,000+ beacons. Projects like Qatar Airways and ZenCity are great examples. But this level of scale brings...
View ArticleSonicPlanet used Estimote beacons to deliver 3D sound experience
Imagine - you’re in a closed, compact space. You navigate around it, slowly moving your feet as if you were exploring an unfamiliar area. As you approach the walls, you start hearing sounds. Every...
View ArticleDisabled communities finding quality of life improvements with beacons
Silicon Valley tech companies often brag about changing the world. We all want to think we’re here for some benevolent purpose; It’s how we bring meaning to our lives and how we sleep with ourselves at...
View ArticleSuccess as a Service: exploring the collaboration between Estimote and Cuseum
Here at Estimote, we offer the hardware and software tools to build contextual solutions: an operating system for the physical world. We always encourage our users to dream big, that their imagination...
View ArticleCa’ Rezzonico: Estimote Indoor Location operating in a Venetian wonderland
Sitting on the right bank of the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, Ca’ Rezzonico stands tall, a white marble baroque style facade facing the lagoon. Its majesty has been honored amongst other buildings...
View ArticleEstimote Beacons with UWB and automapping are now shipping
At Estimote, we’re building an operating system for the physical world, so that conference rooms, event venues, retail spaces, airports, and all kinds of physical spaces can be made more interactive...
View ArticlePrecise indoor positioning in the background, now available to developers
At Estimote, we’re creating technology that enables software developers to build apps that turn physical spaces into intelligent environments. We’ve seen two different approaches to creating...
View ArticleEstimote Indoor Location SDK available on Android
When iBeacon was launched, it had a robust API with just three predefined proximity zones: immediate, near, and far. It’s a very pragmatic design, dictated by the physics of the 2.4 GHz radio waves.In...
View ArticleGet started with low-power routed BLE mesh using beacons
Last week Bluetooth SIG — the organization helping push forward the most popular wireless connectivity technology — announced Bluetooth Mesh, a completely new wireless communication standard built on...
View ArticleEstimote Private Cloud for enterprise-grade deployments
In 2014 we launched Estimote Cloud. Initially, it was a web dashboard where developers could visually manage the beacons they owned. Then, we introduced Fleet Management API which allowed developers to...
View ArticleEstimote Monitoring 2.0 with even better accuracy and custom,...
Here at Estimote, we take two approaches to physical-world context:(Indoor) Location andProximityIndoor location utilizes signals from multiple beacons and provides accurate coordinates. Proximity is...
View ArticleParked car detection made easy — magnetometer support in Estimote Beacons
We think of Estimote Beacons as the building blocks of physical location intelligence. We put a lot of stock in sensors that collect relevant ambient information for their surroundings. These sensors...
View ArticleSearching 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...
View ArticleEstimote launching precise indoor positioning for robots & AGVs using UWB...
In the beginning, our hardware and software were capable of just broadcasting and understanding iBeacon packets. But from the very start we’ve had a much broader vision and wanted to create an...
View ArticleLaunching the most reliable, configuration‑less proximity detection
A few weeks ago we released Estimote Monitoring 2.0, our own API for proximity-based enter/exit events. This new version means even better accuracy, and software-defined zones. Today, we’re making...
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