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How companies are trying to deliver location

Stacey On IOT • June 19, 2017

Imagine going to work each day and arriving at your office to find everything ready for you so you can just to sit down and start working.

Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree

TechCrunch • Dec. 8, 2016

Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network.

Estimote beacons get mesh networking in massive update

Slash Gear • Dec. 7, 2016

If you use Estimote’s location beacons, then you’re about to get a major new feature with the addition of low-energy mesh networking.

Bring life to your apps with precise user positioning

Estimote • Nov. 1, 2016

Existing technologies work fairly well when helping consumers extract value from their locations… except when they are indoors.

Estimote announces the Mirror, a dongle that turns any TV into a smart beacon system

TechCrunch • Sept. 15, 2016

Imagine walking into a store, picking up a pair of shoes, and seeing specs for the kicks appear on a TV next to the display. Or imagine standing in front of an airport departures screen and seeing your flight appear and then a map displaying the best route to your gate. These use cases were supposed to be the killer app for beacons and, finally, these dreams are being realized.

Beacon Technology Company Estimote Raises $10.7 Million Series A

TechCrunch • Jan. 16, 2016

Estimote, a beacon company whose small, wireless sensors and accompanying software provide indoor location technology to some of the largest retailers as well as 65 percent of the Fortune 100, has now closed on $10.7 million in Series A funding.

Estimote, Knoll Partner To Bring iBeacons Into Office Space Planning

TechCrunch • June 17, 2014

Estimote announced a partnership with Knoll to bring its iBeacon platform to the office space planning company.

Virgin Atlantic Experiments With Estimote and its iBeacon Technology

Re/Code • May 5, 2014

Virgin Atlantic plans to work with the beacon startup Estimote to send customized messages and offers to its passengers’ phones as they travel through London Heathrow airport.

Estimote Lands $3.1M Seed Round, Hires GroupMe Vet Steve Cheney

TechCrunch • Dec. 11, 2013

Estimote, a Y Combinator graduate and a FundersClub portfolio company that makes wireless sensors — or beacons — that can be used to transmit information to nearby smartphones in environments such as retail shops, has snagged a $3.1 million seed round.

ESTIMOTE WINS BEST HARDWARE STARTUP AT TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT SF

TechCrunch • Sept. 11, 2013

Manufacturing and logistics giant PCH International alongside hardware incubator Highway1 have announced that Estimote, a tool for helping retail spaces interact with customers, has been chosen for Best Hardware Startup at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013.

ESTIMOTE DETAILS IOS 7 IBEACON SUPPORT FOR ITS CONTEXTUAL PROXIMITY SHOPPING DEVICES

TechCrunch • Sept. 11, 2013

Estimote, a Y Combinator graduate and Hardware Alley exhibitor here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, was able to talk about something today that it’s never been able to before: how its product will work with Apple’s new iBeacon tech in iOS 7. iBeacons allow developers to communicate with iOS devices via Bluetooth Low Energy, in order to provide them with contextual info based on their immediate surroundings.

Y COMBINATOR SUMMER 2013 DEMO DAY, BATCH 2: MEET META, LOB, AMULYTE, WEILOS AND MORE

TechCrunch • Aug. 20, 2013

Just as the wheels of time continue to turn, the 49 new startups out of Y Combinator continue to churn. Batch One is now behind us, and a new group of startups are taking the stage. As per usual, TechCrunch is here to bring you complete coverage of each of these companies, ranging from a “hearing aid 2.0″ to a “Netflix for fashion” to “credit cards for old people.” [Update: For our favorites from across all three batches, check out TechCrunch's top 8 startups from Demo Day]

ESTIMOTE CREATOR TALKS ABOUT BUILDING AN “OS FOR THE PHYSICAL WORLD”

TechCrunch • July 16, 2013

Estimote’s first prototype looked like a parrot. They designed it to sit in stores and count the humans entering and leaving the location and could register their paths through the aisles and even added analytics based on sex and purchasing patterns. In all, if you were a store owner, that weird little parrot, eternally connected to the Internet, was a brand new way of doing business.

Estimote

News and Press

How companies are trying to deliver location

Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree

Estimote beacons get mesh networking in massive update

Bring life to your apps with precise user positioning

Estimote announces the Mirror, a dongle that turns any TV into a smart beacon system

Beacon Technology Company Estimote Raises $10.7 Million Series A

Estimote, Knoll Partner To Bring iBeacons Into Office Space Planning

Virgin Atlantic Experiments With Estimote and its iBeacon Technology

Estimote Lands $3.1M Seed Round, Hires GroupMe Vet Steve Cheney

ESTIMOTE WINS BEST HARDWARE STARTUP AT TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT SF

ESTIMOTE DETAILS IOS 7 IBEACON SUPPORT FOR ITS CONTEXTUAL PROXIMITY SHOPPING DEVICES

Y COMBINATOR SUMMER 2013 DEMO DAY, BATCH 2: MEET META, LOB, AMULYTE, WEILOS AND MORE

ESTIMOTE CREATOR TALKS ABOUT BUILDING AN “OS FOR THE PHYSICAL WORLD”

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Blog Posts

Why Apple&rsquo;s 2nd Gen UWB Chip is Exciting?

SpaceTimeOS - Operating System for the physical world

Apple U1 API is finally open and our new UWB Beacons are compatible

Programmable wearable to fight COVID

AI Beacon brings inch-level positioning with UWB radio and inertial module you can teach

Get ready for iOS 13: Bluetooth and location changes explained

Announcing LTE Beacon for asset tracking

Announcing LTE Beacon for asset tracking

Updated Proximity SDK introduces tag monitoring and enables offline use cases

Proximity reinvented - launching the next-gen Proximity beacons

Presence verification and security is more refined than ever with Estimote Secure Monitoring

How we hacked our conference rooms to get more feedback [Case Study]

Build your first proximity app in 5 minutes

Estimote Cloud Attachments API: store context in the cloud, less in your app!

The most reliable Proximity SDK is now available for Raspberry Pi using Android Things

NASA’s Johnson Space Center transcends space and time with custom built bike tracking system

Real time Analytics API - why wait for insight?

Try our improved Proximity experience in 5 minutes with the new demo

Best practices for submitting your beacon‑enabled iOS 11 apps to App Store

Estimote introducing Low Power Asset Tracking API

The Memphis Music Scene. Booming with the blues, innovated with Estimote.

The most reliable Proximity tech, now with a brand-new Proximity SDK

Estimote Indoor Location positioning achieves 30 cm precision thanks to ARKit

Launching the most reliable, configuration‑less proximity detection

Estimote launching precise indoor positioning for robots & AGVs using UWB beacons

Parked car detection made easy — magnetometer support in Estimote Beacons

Estimote Monitoring 2.0 with even better accuracy and custom, software-defined proximity zones

Estimote Private Cloud for enterprise-grade deployments

Get started with low-power routed BLE mesh using beacons

Estimote Indoor Location SDK available on Android

Precise indoor positioning in the background, now available to developers

Estimote Beacons with UWB and automapping are now shipping

Ca’ Rezzonico: Estimote Indoor Location operating in a Venetian wonderland

Success as a Service: exploring the collaboration between Estimote and Cuseum

Disabled communities finding quality of life improvements with beacons

SonicLab used Estimote beacons to deliver 3D sound experience

Remote fleet management — scale is no challenge

Your most pressing Indoor Location questions, answered!

Piloting 2hr beacon delivery in London

How Mirror works: first look at developing for Mirror

Tesco and Estimote, pioneering grocery stores of the future

The icon of modern art puts Estimote beacons on display

RedBull partners with BYBORRE, CWI, and Nearables for an ultra-sensory experience

Let Estimote do the heavy lifting, with firmware updates over mesh!

Estimote year-end summary and our plans for 2017

Searching for hidden treasure with Locatify and Estimote Beacons

Estimote Beacons with UWB can now automatically create floor plans

Beacons can now last forever - Introducing Clustering

Introducing the world’s first BLE mesh networking that lasts years on battery power

Estimote Monitoring 1.1 - Improved User Enter and Exit Notifications

Want to work with Clear Channel? Come and show what you can hack with Estimote Beacons!

Announcing free developer access to the entire Estimote software stack

Bring life to your apps with precise user positioning

Download the know-how: expanding App Templates into entire use-cases

Our latest innovation: Beacon Storage API!

Why Apple’s 2nd Gen UWB Chip is Exciting?