2016 is going to be the “Year of the Beacon”, or at least the beginnings of mass beacon deployment. Beacons are part of the latest version of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BT-SIG) Low Energy (BLE) specification. In simplest terms, beacons are broadcast from a piece of hardware to the nearest portable electronic device—think the cell phone, tablet or computer you’re already carrying—and allow these devices to perform some kind of action. Typical examples are:
When you get close to a door, it unlocks
When you get near a product in a store, you receive a coupon
Walking through a museum you approach a display, and the audio description of that display is sent to your headset

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