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Life & fun · January 8, 2014

Estimote Beacons

Real-world context for your app

Estimote Beacons launched on January 8, 2014 with 114 votes, #80 of 1,173 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Help people navigate buildings, locate equipment and understand room occupancy. Explore Estimote indoor location hardware, software and developer kits.

Spaces should be intelligent and things should magically happen at the right place and at the right time. It is a next-generation operating system that you install on your physical spaces. It makes them intelligent and programmable. You can run apps and create prompts directly on your physical business. Install anchors on walls or ceilings to help compatible phones find their position indoors. Use them for directions through airports, hospitals and stores. UWB anchors are fixed devices that send radio signals from known locations. A compatible phone compares when those signals arrive to work out its own position inside the building. The technique is called downlink time difference of…from estimote.com

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