Just like iBeacon and Eddystone, BLE beacons & Tags that use Line beacon protocols are mandatory along with the Line App, a custom mobile application built exclusively for this use
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) does the same task as the GPS systems do. The most noticeable difference is that RTLS is used primarily indoors for the purpose of locating and monitoring the activity of people and things. RTLS lets you do all this in real-time. Due to this, RTLS has a vast number of business applications and use-cases in any sector.
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And a few more are worthy contenders to be integrated with RTLS though their methods of operations are very different from each other. The most popular RTLS technology that is adopted worldwide is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) RTLS. This is because more than 8 billion devices exist which are enabled with Bluetooth and the recent Bluetooth standards like Bluetooth 5.1 offer completely new capabilities that are significantly cheaper than the other existing technologies.
-case. The Beacons will be attached to the items in a store and when a smartphone which has the Line App installed comes under the proximity of the beacon, alerts/notifications will be generated by the app for the user, which can be offers or discounts on the items in the respective stores.
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