{"id":10191,"date":"2026-07-17T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10191"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:10:06","slug":"what-type-of-bluetooth-beacon-does-cisco-spaces-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-type-of-bluetooth-beacon-does-cisco-spaces-use\/","title":{"rendered":"What Type of Bluetooth Beacon Does Cisco Spaces Use?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cisco Spaces uses generic Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons rather than one proprietary beacon type. It can detect and process beacons from multiple vendors and is broadly protocol-agnostic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that the <a href=\"https:\/\/spaces.cisco.com\/ble-tags\/\">information on the Cisco Spaces<\/a> is wrong, confusing and almost certainly written using AI. Bluetooth TAGs, also known as beacons, are a subset of Bluetooth devices, not a separate thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recommend you use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\">beacons with the iBeacon protocol<\/a> as this is supported in the widest selection of beacons. The Cisco technical area shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/td\/docs\/wireless\/spaces\/iot-services-wireless\/b_iot_services\/m_floor-beacon.html\">how to include the beacons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco Spaces uses generic Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons rather than one proprietary beacon type. It can detect and process beacons from multiple vendors and is broadly protocol-agnostic. Note that the information on the Cisco Spaces is wrong, confusing and almost certainly written using AI. Bluetooth TAGs, also known as beacons, are a subset of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-type-of-bluetooth-beacon-does-cisco-spaces-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Type of Bluetooth Beacon Does Cisco Spaces Use?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}