Beacon applications in information services
Dingyu Liu, Chia-Sui Wang, Kuei-Shu Hsu · 2016
In the current smart mobile devices are increasingly popular trend and bluetooth technology more widely. Beacon is based on Bluetooth technology and precision positioning technology. Beacon in use, mostly focused on the retail consumer push applications can bring promotional opportunities. 2013 Apple WWDC conference released iBeacon, is a wireless transmission scheme, exposed the micro-positioning in the future. However, any use Bluetooth low energy (BLE or Bluetooth 4.0) micro-positioning signal transmitters can be called Beacon, Beacon and iBeacon difference is only the difference between the broadcast signal frequency. Beacon technology addition to applications in the commercial, the paper will explore Beacon on a variety of information services applications, such as traditional library service combined Ibeacon tour combining culture and technology to promote digital reading, use of site characterization recommended book list, different field will recommend different books, makes eBook thrust and iBeacon pull interact with each other, develop more users.