#Location tracking with radbeacon Bluetooth#

I'd pass on the Estimote, unless you want their so-called indoor location tracking. Sure, its a regular beacon, you can actually edit it's settings, use their API, but there was nothing to hold me to it, I quickly started looking for better alternatives that did not come with an ugly case. You can't buy just 1 beacon, only sets of 3, and the'yre very expensive.Editing the beacon requires you to be online and have the beacon associated with their API.Replacing the battery requires you to destroy the case.

I received my beacons in a few days and immediatly cut one open to check it out. I orignally chose Estimote because out of the few I found, they seemed to be the most popular and had decent resources for developers. Let's review a little bit about the ble beacons I've tested. Hopefully more will be using AltBeacon instead, since it's truely open, where Apple. This means very little to me, since I'm just doing proxmitiy, but it's good to see the protocol being accepted. The one thing all 3 of these beacons shares is the iBeacon protocol. From battery size to chipset selection and of course, how it's packaged. I've tested 3 beacons and each one is completly different.

Over the past year many new products have been released, more beacons, more software, just more of everything.

#Location tracking with radbeacon Bluetooth#

I've recently started on a project that belongs to the Internet of Thigs, IoT, and it requires some proximity tracking - and for that the standard these days is BLE, or Bluetooth Low Energy, in the form of a 'beacon'. Sort of like Planet PHP or PHPDeveloper, except this site doesn’t look like it’s from the ’90s.Īll feeds Selecting the right beacon for your IoT project! This website aggregates the latest news and articles regarding PHP, and presents it in one place.