2016 is going to be the “Year of the Beacon”, or at least the beginnings of mass beacon deployment. Beacons are part of the latest version of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BT-SIG) Low ...

PayPal announced a new way to better connect merchants with customers through the use of their mobile device. On stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the commerce company unveiled Beacon ...

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 ...

We've been hearing a lot about iBeacon and Bluetooth Low Energy-powered devices in the retail sector, where stores are beginning to roll out support for beacons in order to better communicate with ...

How Do Bluetooth Beacons Work? “Once deployed, Bluetooth beacons don’t make a two-way connection with any other device,” says Kapil Asher, senior director of enterprise Internet of Things solutions at ...

Bluetooth beacon devices market in APAC. In terms of shipments, APAC held a 22.31% share of the global Bluetooth beacon devices market in 2015. In the region, the ...

The report forecasts the global Bluetooth beacon devices market to grow at a CAGR of 222.8% by volume during the period 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report ...

PayPal is debuting Beacon, a new add-on hardware device for merchants that leverages bluetooth technology to enable consumers to pay at stores completely hands-free.

Most Android devices can’t broadcast beacons over Bluetooth when powered off or out of battery, though. This is because their Bluetooth chips don’t have any way to continue receiving power ...