Tag: BLE
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A remarkaBLE week in Bluetooth
The headlines: 01 12 16 — HID Global Acquires Bluvision to Expand With Bluetooth Solutions for the Enterprise Internet of Things Market (press release) 05 12 16 — Gimbal is Joining The Mobile Majority (press release) 07 12 16 — Bluetooth 5 Now Available (press release) It’s not every week that you see two companies…
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Hearable Nearables
Imagine you could “hear” Bluetooth devices moving through a building. In anticipation of last weekend’s #HackTheHouse hackathon for smart buildings, hosted at Notman House where we’ve had our technology deployed since 2012, we created the Notman Tonal Presence web application to do just that. On each of Notman’s three floors, there are three of our…
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ObservaBLE etiquette
Rules are explicit principles governing conduct. Etiquette is an expected code of conduct within social norms. When we developed and released our first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device in 2013, there were rules, but there was no etiquette. To understand why, recall that BLE was born as Wibree, introduced by Nokia in 2006, and only…
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LPLAN as amenaBLE to M2M as LPWAN
This week we attended the Wavefront IoT Roadshow where much of this year’s hype was around LPWAN technologies which allow simple, inexpensive radio devices to communicate short messages with cellular base stations kilometers away. An excellent example of the potential of this technology is the SMOCKEO smoke detector which automatically and securely communicates status and…
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