What is a BLE "Beacon"? First off, what is a beacon and how do they work? I like to use the analogy of a lighthouse, a beacon has one simple purpose, and that is to send out a signal and say I am here. It's completely unaware of any mobile devices that are around it, it doesn't connect or steal their data. The beacon just sends out...
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Echolo helps create solutions to monitor expensive capital assets and use that data to improve efficiency, drive better performance and enable innovation. Based on Microsoft Azure Internet of Things services, the solution collects, integrates, and organizes sensor data from remote equipment across global supply chains to support real-time insight, predictive analytics, and preventive maintenance. We focus on delivering effective solutions that reduce cost and have a real ROI...
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The beauty of Bluetooth Low Energy devices is that they can be designed to be very small and run 24/7 on little to no power for a long time. Bluetooth mesh provides the basic infrastructure to support the relay of messages from BLE tags over a network of mesh relay devices or nodes. Location of the tags is most commonly determined using received signal strength (RSSI)...
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