“Beacons represent a valuable opportunity for commercial locations to connect with consumers in a variety of settings, such as retail shopping environments or through products used in the home, such ...

A family-owned pharmacy has deployed a series of hybrid beacons combining Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Near Field Communication (NFC) RFID technologies to enable its customers to access coupons and ...

Bluetooth low-energy beacons, Near Field Communication (NFC) tags and Quick Response (QR) codes will be deployed at various locations across Bologna Airport, enabling the airport to pro-actively send ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Near field communication (NFC) ...

Technology startup Blesh is offering beacons and a content-management systems (CMS) software development kit (SDK) to be used as part of a public project being undertaken with Google, known as the ...

Among many options for low-power, relatively short-ranged connectivity, two technologies stand out – near-field communication and Bluetooth low energy. Both have relatively low deployment costs and ...

The main differences between Bluetooth LE, RFID, and NFC, and how all three of these technologies are now improving product security in healthcare and safeguarding patient information, among other ...