Recent trend of iBeacon in Japan
iBeacon is one and the only one powerful tool for sending a event trigger to an iPhone be meters away from a beacon. I introduce recent trend of iBeacon in Japan, because I have not read an article like this in English, yet.
I talk about beacon manufacturing companies, services that uses iBeacon, and application delopers (iOS and server applications) communities in Japan.
iBeacon manufactureres
Aplix Corporation http://www.aplix.co.jp, translated by Google transate, has been proving beacons since October 2013. Their beacons, product page, translated page, are resonable prices and very unique.
Power efficient beacon
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The “MyBeacon ™ Pro MB004” is a low cost beacon that starter Pack (10 units included) 10,000 yen, 500 yen / unit 20,000 Lot.
Usual beacon has only one bluetooth single-mode module. It is required to receive RF-signals (scanning requests and connection requests) after transmitting advertising packets (beacon packets). This results in large power consumption.