BEACON TECHNOLOGY WITH IoT AND BIG DATA

The history of beacons starts a long time ago as a way to signal over long distances using fire or later light houses. Beacons, as pertains to the Internet of Things (IoT), started with bluetooth and accelerated with advancement to bluetooth low energy (BLE), now referred to as bluetooth smart. The bluetooth protocol has been around for many years enabling wireless transfer of data including both audio and video by the creation of a sharable wireless personal network. The data attained from a person's corporate ID can be combined with information about their movement, who they are meeting with, and cross referenced against other members of their team. Big data is about using large data sets to predict and reveal patterns in human behavior. This is where indoor location and positioning can help everything from Marketers to UN peace keepers understand situations better and react accordingly.