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• General Knowledge

  General topics related to beacons, Estimote Cloud and getting started.

  • Getting started with Estimote
  • How do beacons work?
  • I cannot see my beacons in Estimote Cloud. How do I add them?

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• Ordering

  Everything you need to know about shipping and ordering beacons.

  • What is the shipping time?
  • What payment methods do you accept?
  • How do I get my invoice?

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• Use Cases

  Tons of inspirations from the beacon projects already built by our clients.

  • Apps and projects with Estimote
  • Church of St. Michael's inspires, nourishes, and informs with the new beacon-powered MichelApp
  • All Hours - an attendance tracking software with beacons

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• Proximity

  We focus here on use cases based on enter/exit events - sending notifications, logging visits, identifying users, automation and others.

  • What use cases are possible with Proximity?
  • What is Estimote Monitoring?
  • Why should I use Proximity SDK? What are the benefits?

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• Indoor Location & Asset Tracking

  This section is about the use cases based on Estimote Indoor Location - tracking assets or people, wayfinding, heatmaps and others.

  • What’s Estimote Indoor Location? Why should I use it?
  • How to set up a location in Estimote Indoor Location?

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• LTE Beacon

  Everything you need to know about the latest addition to the Estimote product family: Estimote LTE Beacon. Find out what it can do and how to work with it here.

  • Which browsers support Web Bluetooth?
  • What is a heartbeat?
  • Programming Principles and Good Practices for Estimote LTE Beacon
  • How the LTE Beacon can work with other Estimote devices
  • Estimote LTE Beacon — everything you wanted to know

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• IoT & Sensors

  Read here about tracking robots, utilizing digital signage with Mirror and using sensors built into beacons. We also cover NFC and GPIO.

  • What kind of sensors do Estimote Beacons have?
  • How to use accelerometer and Telemetry packet?
  • What's NFC ?

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• iBeacon & Eddystone

  We cover here older solutions based on iBeacon and Eddystone. They're not compatible with Proximity SDK but still work with our beacons.

  • What are Nearby Notifications and how to enable them?
  • What are region Monitoring and Ranging?
  • How to modify iBeacon's UUID, Major, and Minor values?

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