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A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse , which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port.
The Beacon API (application programming interface) is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium, the standards organization for the web. [10] It is a standardized API that directs the web client to silently send tracking data back to the server, i.e. without alerting the user and thus disturbing their experience. [citation needed]
In December 2013, Apple announced iBeacon: the first beacon protocol in the market. iBeacon works with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. The beacon using the iBeacon protocol transmits a so-called UUID. The UUID is a string of 24 numbers, which communicate with an installed Mobile App. [2] Advantages: Widely supported; Simple and easy to implement;
Beacon, a retail fuel brand of Valero Energy; Beacon Communications (publisher), a publisher of weekly newspapers in Rhode Island, U.S. Beacon Communications Corporation, a defunct newspaper publisher in Massachusetts, U.S. Beacon Pictures an American film production company, also known as "Beacon Communications, LLC" Beacon Press, an American ...
802.11 Beacon frame. A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically; they serve to announce the presence of a wireless LAN and to provide a timing signal to synchronise communications with the devices using the network (the members of a service set).
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With the help of a Bluetooth beacon, a smartphone's software can approximately find its relative location to a Bluetooth beacon in a store. Brick and mortar retail stores use the beacons for mobile commerce , offering customers special deals through mobile marketing , [ 6 ] and can enable mobile payments through point of sale systems.
These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.