To create a practical smartphone-based mobile ID badge app, there are several technical challenges which must be addressed BLE beacons development Apple eventually announced a new Bluetooth Low Energy ...

Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new study.

A Nordic Semiconductor nRF5 chip powers the tracker, flashed with firmware to broadcast as a Bluetooth low-energy beacon. It generates a key compatible with Apple's Find My network, meaning the ...

Low-cost animal tracking using Bluetooth low energy beacons on a crowd-sourced network, Methods in Ecology and Evolution ...

A beacon, in its simplest form, is a small, low-powered and low-cost piece of hardware that emits Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signals. The BLE that a beacon emits can wake up apps that are ...

Piper, a Bluetooth low-energy beacon solution provider, powered the solution, which is supported by the latest iOS and Android platforms. Piper partnered with McDonalds to deliver coupons directly ...

investigators describe a solution that can overcome many current limitations by employing the massive global network of personal mobile phones as gateways for tracking animals using Bluetooth low ...