iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth, IoT sensor beacons, apps, platforms
We have the new ASensor beacon in stock. This is our smallest sensor beacon measuring only 37.3mm x 37.3mm x 7mm and it uses the power efficient Dialog DA14580 that gives up to 1.5 years from a CR2025 battery.
The beacon supports iBeacon, Eddystone or sensor advertising. For sensor mode, the temperature, acceleration and battery level are in the advertising data.
We now have the AprilBrother Wireless iBeacon Receiver in stock.
The Wireless iBeacon Receiver receives (any manufacturer) beacon advertising broadcasts and sends them on via MQTT via your WiFi access point. It can scan for multiple beacons at the same time and provides updates up to 1 per second.
This device can be used to monitor the health of beacons or in other usecases whether beacons have come into range or out of range. It can also be used with sensor beacons in IoT-type scenarios.
The SD Times has a new article, by Alexandra Weber Morales on Why developers are sitting pretty for IoT.
The article explains how mobile developers such as ourselves are moving to the IoT and how beacons are part of the IoT. Other important areas for IoT are (big) data and security. The article concludes with several ways to get started and explore the IoT.
You might also like to read an article on Beacons and IoT that we wrote on LinkedIn last January.