Gateways automatically detect beacons and pass on advertising data via WiFi, Ethernet connection, USB port or Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) such as LoRa. This allows subsequent desktops, servers or cloud services to detect beacons that are either come into or subsequently gone out of range. For beacons that advertise battery levels, gateways also allow battery levels to be monitored remotely. Sensor data such as acceleration, temperature, humidity, light level, magnetic (hall) switching, PIR and IR proximity in advertising data can also be sent to servers to provide for IoT scenarios and real-time location systems (RTLS).