iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth, IoT sensor beacons, apps, platforms
We recently came across Time Guard, an app that logs working time, holiday and flexi time and provides notifications when you go over a set daily and maximum allowed working time.
The app can use iBeacons to automatically detect when you enter or leave locations. Data can be viewed in Excel (.csv) or as monthly time sheets.
Pushcut, the HomeKit and workflow automation iOS app, has some updates that now allow iBeacon triggered in background. Delayed notifications and ‘do not repeat’ durations are also possible with iBeacon triggers.
Pushcut allows you to execute online actions and web requests in the background providing IFTTT triggers from an iBeacon.
Pushcut is listed in our Solutions Directory.
A growing number of people are using beacons for personal use. Today, we added the Beacon Locator Android app to our Solutions Directory. It allows you to set up action types such as opening a URL, broadcasting an Android intent, starting an app, changing the sound profile and running tasks via Tasker in response to detecting or losing a beacon signal.
What’s especially interesting about this app is that it’s open source allowing you to extend it to a multitude of personal and business scenarios.