{"id":6170,"date":"2021-03-05T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:28:52","slug":"bluetooth-le-for-smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-le-for-smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth LE for Smart Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s new research on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2102.08751.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BLE Beacons in the Smart City: Applications, Challenges, and Research Opportunities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper explains how BLE beacons are a promising solution for many smart city applications. It describes BLE beacons, protocols, competing wireless technologies and the types of applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bluetoothleprotocols.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bluetoothleprotocols.png 508w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bluetoothleprotocols-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 85vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper covers some applications such as proximity marketing, indoor navigation and location based services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/proximitybasedservices.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/proximitybasedservices.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/proximitybasedservices-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/locationbasedservices.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/locationbasedservices.png 451w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/locationbasedservices-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 85vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Security and privacy issues are also mentioned such as cracking, spoofing and piggybacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s new research on BLE Beacons in the Smart City: Applications, Challenges, and Research Opportunities. The paper explains how BLE beacons are a promising solution for many smart city applications. It describes BLE beacons, protocols, competing wireless technologies and the types of applications. The paper covers some applications such as proximity marketing, indoor navigation and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-le-for-smart-cities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth LE for Smart Cities&#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":[61,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170"}],"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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}