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Beacon Capital Partners is an American real estate investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] It was founded in 1998, after Beacon Properties, Inc., Beacon's predecessor, was acquired by EQ Office in a $4 billion transaction. [2] [3] The company focuses on office and life science properties in major markets across the United States. [4]
Each year Private Equity International publishes the PERE 100, a ranking of the largest private equity real estate companies by how much capital they have raised for investment in the last five years. In the 2024 ranking, Blackstone Inc. retained top spot. [1]
In February 2023, Kurt Knutsson of CyberGuy Report at Fox News included Spot X in a review of "the 5 best" personal locator beacons (PLB). [ 7 ] As of 2019, SPOT has successfully helped initiate more than 6,000 rescues in 100 countries.
The Lightstone Group is a privately held real estate investment company which owns and operates a diversified portfolio of multifamily, office, industrial, hotel, and retail properties. Lightstone has invested directly in individual real estate assets and in real estate operating companies. The company was founded by David Lichtenstein in 1988 ...
A single beacon can transmit one, two or all three frametypes. The three frametypes are: Beacon protocol - Google's Eddystone. URL: a URL (i.e. a website link) is transmitted to the device, eliminating the need for an installed Mobile App. UID (similar to Apple's UUID): a 16 digit string of characters, which can identify the individual beacon.
In the early 2000s (in 2003 in the USA) a new type of distress beacon, the personal locator beacon (PLB), became available [43] for use by individuals who cannot contact emergency services through normal telephone-originated services, such as 1-1-2 or 9-1-1. Typically PLBs are used by people engaged in recreational activities in remote areas ...
A large variety of techniques and devices are used to provide indoor positioning ranging from reconfigured devices already deployed such as smartphones, WiFi and Bluetooth antennas, digital cameras, and clocks; to purpose built installations with relays and beacons strategically placed throughout a defined space. Lights, radio waves, magnetic ...
Radiolocation, also known as radiolocating or radiopositioning, is the process of finding the location of something through the use of radio waves.It generally refers to passive, particularly radar—as well as detecting buried cables, water mains, and other public utilities.