{"id":5095,"date":"2020-06-23T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2020-06-23T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:37:44","slug":"mist-wifi-access-points-broadcast-as-bluetooth-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/mist-wifi-access-points-broadcast-as-bluetooth-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Mist WiFi Access Points Broadcast as Bluetooth Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WiFi access points are increasingly supporting the broadcast of Bluetooth beacon signals. The main usecase is to allow for smartphone apps to detect the Bluetooth advertising and provide for location based information and navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently learnt that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mist.com\/documentation\/app-wakeup-ibeacon-eddystone-url\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mist access points support the advertising of iBeacon and Eddystone<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mistibeaconeddystone.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mistibeaconeddystone.png 310w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/mistibeaconeddystone-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also some interesting uses in retail that automatically provision smartphone WiFi access settings based on the detected presence of a beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WiFi access points are increasingly supporting the broadcast of Bluetooth beacon signals. The main usecase is to allow for smartphone apps to detect the Bluetooth advertising and provide for location based information and navigation. We recently learnt that Mist access points support the advertising of iBeacon and Eddystone: There are also some interesting uses in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/mist-wifi-access-points-broadcast-as-bluetooth-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mist WiFi Access Points Broadcast as Bluetooth Beacons&#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":[3,2,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095"}],"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=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}