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Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem

Name: Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem
Author: Stephen Statler
ISBN: 9781484218891

by Stephen Statler

June 2016

Intermediate to advanced

428 pages

14h 13m

English

Apress

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Stephen StatlerBeacon Technologies10.1007/978-1-4842-1889-1_18

18. Barcodes, QR Codes, NFC, and RFID

Stephen Statler¹

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San Diego, California, USA

Theresa Mary Gordon and Steve Statler

In this chapter we will review several proximity technologies that enable automated identification of physical objects and provide alternatives to Bluetooth beacons:

Barcode and QR (Quick Response) code technologies, which enable interactions with tags that are “in sight”
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC), which enable interactions with radios that are generally “in reach” but may be out of sight

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Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Beacosystem

by Stephen Statler

18. Barcodes, QR Codes, NFC, and RFID

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