Software and Hardware Beacons

Galen Gruman developed a slideshow to illustrate the use of physical beacon devices for tracking user location.

An earlier usage of the term "beacon" is applied to images downloaded from (and tracked by) a Web server. Bruno Skvorc reviews software beacon technology , and Melissa Aparico demonstrates a consumer mail-tracking application which utilizes software tracking beacons.

-DD

 

RFID

Bob Violino has written about the adoption of radio frequency identification in a NetworkWorld article titled RFID: Befuddled by FUD. This new technology will be used to transfer information about packages, books and other physical items, and has already been adopted by firms such as Walmart.

-DD