{"id":2702,"date":"2016-12-08T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2016-12-08T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:29:21","slug":"estimote-uses-their-new-mesh-network-of-ble-beacons-to-decorate-a-yuletide-tree-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/estimote-uses-their-new-mesh-network-of-ble-beacons-to-decorate-a-yuletide-tree-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/12\/08\/estimote-uses-their-new-mesh-network-of-ble-beacons-to-decorate-a-yuletide-tree\/?ncid=rss\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-08-at-5-34-18-pm.png?w=987\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/12\/08\/estimote-uses-their-new-mesh-network-of-ble-beacons-to-decorate-a-yuletide-tree\/\">Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/product\/estimote-beacons#\/entity\" target=\"_blank\">Estimote<\/a>, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they proceed to hang on a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>The new beacons run Bluetooth Low Energy and connect to each other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Estimote\/status\/806219538819858432\" target=\"_blank\">automatically<\/a>. They last for years on one battery and can be programmed to expand a BLE network throughout an entire area, each beacon handing off to the next as necessary.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network.\u00a0Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-HA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}