{"id":8924,"date":"2023-11-10T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2023-11-10T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:10:56","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-beacon-and-ibeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-beacon-and-ibeacon\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Difference Between Beacon and iBeacon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>iBeacon is a protocol designed by Apple that sits on top of, or uses, the Bluetooth LE protocol. Think of Bluetooth LE as a standard mechanism for sending a short amount of information that can be anything. In the case of iBeacon this &#8216;anything&#8217; is the UUID, major, minor and a power calibration value called the measured power. We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/the-ibeacon-protocol\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/the-ibeacon-protocol\/\">post explaining these iBeacon values<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBeacon is a protocol designed by Apple that sits on top of, or uses, the Bluetooth LE protocol. Think of Bluetooth LE as a standard mechanism for sending a short amount of information that can be anything. In the case of iBeacon this &#8216;anything&#8217; is the UUID, major, minor and a power calibration value called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-beacon-and-ibeacon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the Difference Between Beacon and iBeacon?&#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\/8924"}],"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=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}