Estimote beacons

Estimote Inc. was founded by Jakub Krzych and Lukasz Kostka in 2012. The company focuses on making low-power IoT devices that can stick to walls or objects. They use many technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, HDMI, and mesh networking. Their devices normally come with sensors, such as motion, temperature, ambient light, magnetometer, pressure, and telemetry. They specialize in Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons with full support for Eddystone and iBeacon platforms. In this chapter, we will take a look at their SDK and practical examples that you can implement using Estimote beacons.

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Estimote has a wide variety of beacons for different kinds of applications. I recommend buying Long Range Location Beacons because they provide much more flexibility and options. You can buy Estimote beacons at http://estimote.com/#get-beacons-section.

Estimote Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons feature a 32-bit ARM Cortex CPU with a 2.4 GHz radio for Bluetooth communication. The battery typically...