Bluetooth Beacon Basics Bluetooth beacons are hockey puck-sized devices that use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radios to detect other nearby BLE devices, such as your smartphone. The beacon sends a ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global Bluetooth beacon devices market is expected to grow at a massive CAGR of close to 223% during the forecast period, according to Technavio’s latest report.

The ability to set up a hub and detect Bluetooth devices solves the problem Bluetooth beacons solves — identifying when people enter a space, leave a space, and with a little bit of logic where ...

laptops and other smaller electronic devices that enables them to connect to networks. This same technology is used in Bluetooth beacons, which colleges and universities are starting to rely on to ...

How it works is that participating devices will use Bluetooth to broadcast a beacon that other nearby devices can receive. The broadcasting device’s location is then encrypted by receiving ...

Android devices that contribute to the Find My Device network broadcast a beacon over Bluetooth that other nearby Android devices can pick up on. The devices that pick up this beacon then encrypt ...

According to the researchers (via MacRumors), the “nRootTag” attack uses a Bluetooth address combined with the Find My network to turn other devices into homing beacons. “It’s like ...

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Beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a technology built into iPhones and iPads since 2010 (and Macs since 2012) and in many higher-end Android devices since 2013. You don’t need a special ...