Getting Started
Beacons ranging accuracy
Ranging with beacons is based on the value of RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), i.e., the value of the RF signal received by your smartphone. The received signal is strongly affected by several parameters, such as the relative orientation ...
Compatibility
BlueBeacon devices are compatible with all mobile operating systems, supporting Bluetooth Low Energy: iOS (7.0 and later, for CoreLocation iBeacon support), Android (4.3 and later), Windows Phone 10. iBeacon is not only for Apple devices. iBeacon ...
Quuppa technology
Quuppa Intelligent Locating System is a proprietary powerful technology platform for novel location based services and applications. It enables real-time tracking of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) smart tags, beacons and devices, with accuracy even down ...
Eddystone specifications
Eddystone is an open beacon format from Google for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. The Eddystone specification includes a number of broadcast frame types: UID, URL, TLM. The Eddystone-UID frame broadcasts an opaque, unique 16-byte Beacon ID ...
iBeacon technology
iBeacon is the trademark for an indoor positioning system developed by Apple Inc. This system enables a smartphone or other device (e.g. tablet) to receive a transmitted signal and perform actions when in close proximity to a device (beacon) that ...
Bluetooth Low Energy beacons
A BLE beacon is a wireless device that periodically broadcasts a Bluetooth Low Energy advertising packet, that is received by a smartphone and used to determine the position relative to the beacon itself. This allows to provide "context-aware" ...
What is a beacon
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A classical example of beacon is the lighthouse, used in navigation, that helps navigators find their destination. In electronics, a beacon is a ...
Recent Articles
Radio TX Power vs Advertised TX Power
Radio TX Power is the strength of the transmitted signal (in dBm). For our beacons it goes from -40 to +4 dBm. The Radio TX Power impacts on the transmission distance: the higher the Radio TX Power, the longer the distance. The Advertised TX Power is ...
Wirepas TagX
BlueBeacon Wirepas TagX is a battery-powered asset tag based on powerful nRF52832 SoC, with full support of Wirepas Massive (previously Mesh) network protocol. BlueBeacon Wirepas TagX is designed as asset tag for identification and tracking in ...
Wirepas Badge Holder
BlueBeacon Wirepas Badge Holder is a wearable badge-holder battery-powered tag, based on SoC Nordic nRF52832, for people and asset tracking. It is designed ho host standard ISO/IEC 7810 cards (magnetic, RFID, NFC) for personnel identification. ...
Quuppa TagX
BlueBeacon Quuppa TagX is a battery-powered asset tag based on powerful nRF52832 SoC, with full support of Quuppa software features (Quuppa Compatible). Quuppa TagX is designed as asset tag for sub-meter accuracy localization and tracking in RTLS for ...
Quuppa Badge Holder
BlueBeacon Quuppa Badge Holder is a wearable badge-holder battery-powered BLE tag, based on BT5-ready SoC Nordic nRF52832, for people and asset tracking. It is designed to host standard ISO/IEC 7810 cards (magnetic, RFID, NFC) for personnel ...