{"id":1462,"date":"2017-03-03T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2023-05-05T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:35:39","slug":"detecting-beacons-on-linux-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/detecting-beacons-on-linux-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Beacons on Linux Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beacons don’t just work with smartphones. They can work with any other devices that have Bluetoooth LE. This includes Single Board Computers (SBCs) such as the Raspberry Pi 3 and new $10 Pi Zero W that include Bluetooth 4.1.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pi zero Wireless<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you take a look at our article on Implementation Types<\/a>, the smartphone app or gateway in each scenario could equally be a SBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For sensing and RTLS applications<\/a>, the SBC can do additional pre-processing to extract and\/or filter sensor data. It can also do post processing to aggregate data and\/or reformat for specific IoT platforms. Another advantage of a SBC over a gateway<\/a> is that data can be cached when WiFi or Internet connectivity isn’t available and queued for sending later so that the data isn’t lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The starting place for evaluating use of Linux-based SBCs is usually the command line hcitool. This can be used to scan for and connect to beacons<\/a> and save data to a file<\/a>. There’s also a script available to scan and decode advertising data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementations usually use the Bluez library<\/a> that can be programatically accessed via languages such as c<\/a>, Python<\/a> and Javascript (node.js)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beacons don’t just work with smartphones. They can work with any other devices that have Bluetoooth LE. This includes Single Board Computers (SBCs) such as the Raspberry Pi 3 and new $10 Pi Zero W that include Bluetooth 4.1. Pi zero Wireless If you take a look at our article on Implementation Types, the smartphone … Continue reading “Detecting Beacons on Linux Devices”<\/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":[136,135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}