Disable Texting while driving With iBeacons Have you ever wanted to remove the temptation to text while driving? Using a Bleu Station Beacon in your car, you can disable the Message app on iOS whenever you are nearby the beacon, preventing you from sending or receiving texts. When you get out of the car, Messages…
by TC Loving I use a treadmill desk. My reason: better thinking. How I Use My Treadmill Desk Here at Twocanoes I am a web programmer, which means at about 7 hours of screen time 5 days a week. (Just writing that makes my back ache.) I am in the office about one week every…
If your beacon solution depends on your beacons being up and running all the time, consider deploying multiple beacons in a single area. When two beacons have the exact same identifiers, they don’t conflict, but rather extend the area covered by both beacons. For example, if it is important to have a user be notified…
Since beacons use Bluetooth Low Energy, most people think that a beacon can run on any battery for an indefinite amount of time. While Bluetooth Low Energy was designed for long life on small batteries, this is not true for every Bluetooth Low Energy device. Some Bluetooth Low Energy devices may not broadcast at all,…
A beacon is a small device that broadcasts identifiers over Bluetooth. It may seem very simple to just stick a beacon wherever is the most convenient, it is important to consider the best location when installing a beacon. First, beacons broadcast using radio waves, and are affected by objects that are between the user’s phone…
When looking at different beacons, don’t just consider the price of the beacon itself but the cost for setup, deployment, and maintenance. The actual cost of beacons in a solution is only one component, and may very well be the smaller cost overall. Here are five areas to consider for when considering the cost of…
Imagine a future where you can let people know that you are in your car JUST BY LOOKING AT A WEB PAGE! Good news for you, since I have just arrived in a time machine and will give you the recipe FROM THE FUTURE to enable you to do this. Don’t worry, it uses items…
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, wondering how everyone seems to be able to send push notifications, but YOU can’t? While medication can help, consider something much more entertaining: meetings.twocanoes.com & a pass. A website and a pass? For push notifications? IMPOSSIBLE! Hold on, come back here….
Samsung jumped into the proximity space last week,and Doug Thompson over at Beekn.net did a good write up here. We’ll see what Samsung does with beacons, but you can buy one of our Bleu Station beacons and start beacon-enabling your apps and solutions right now.
Using iBeacons to trigger polices on iPhones and iPads withmobile device management (MDM) is giving IT system administrators with large deployments of mobile new options that improve user experience and enterprise security while reducing help desk costs. JAMF Software, creators of the Casper Suite client management and MDM solution, is leading the way and posted…
Twocanoes Labs started selling beacons about a year ago, and we just announced our next generation beacon, Bleu Station Beacon Series 200. We have deployed tens of thousands of our Bleu Station Beacons Series 100 throughout retail, commercial and educational customers. From these deployments, we learned a lot, and we took what we learned when…
The command line on OS X has a lot of power, and you can use it to help with iBeacon configuration. An iBeacon configuration requires a UUID, major, and minor number. Using a UUID means that administrators can generate their own UUID without having to register with a central authority. OS X provides a simple…
Twocanoes Labs today announces the availability of their next-generation iBeacon technology, Bleu Station Series 200. Features include over-the-air firmware update capability, LED visual status indicator, encryption and reset button. Bleu Station beacons include certified AC power adapter, meaning no battery maintenance is required. Bleu Station beacons are fully compliant with Apple’s iBeacon performance standard and are available now on the Twocanoes Store.
Twocanoes Labs HOME SUPPORT STORE BLEU STATION GEOHOPPER BLEU MEETINGS Introducing the new Bleu Station Beacon Bleu Station Series 200 Greetings! We’ve had a busy fall season at Twocanoes Labs! Our latest entry in the world of beacons is the Bleu Station 200 Series, featuring a new design and new features. There is now a LED visual…
One of the common questions we get is how to select a major and minor number when configuring iBeacons. Apple provides some examples, but really up to you to decide on a scheme to for the major and minor numbers. The important thing to consider when selecting the major and minor numbers is that you…
The website Aislelabs tested a bunch of battery powered Beacons, and did some good analysis of the chips sets and battery usage of the different beacons. It highlights something we have known for a while: Battery powered beacons in-spec require you to change the batteries *a lot*. Apple is very specific about the broadcast rate…
link to video Introduction Printers continue to be a big driver of IT support costs, but iBeacon technology can help reduce help requests and increase user satisfaction. The Casper Suite 9.5 introduced iBeacon support for both OS X and iOS, and we have been working hard at Twocanoes Labs to make sure that our hardware…
Twocanoes Software announces Yosemite compatibility for Winclone 4, Boot Runner, Geohopper for Mac and Push Diagnostics. Winclone 4 is an essential solution for cloning, resizing and migrating Boot Camp on the Mac. Winclone Pro 4 includes package installation features for mass deployment of Boot Camp in enterprise environments. Boot Runner provides full startup management of multi-boot Macs. Geohopper for Mac extends the notification and automation capabilities of Geohopper for iOS. Push Diagnostics aids in troubleshooting networking problems for inbound push services.
Twocanoes Labs Introducing Geohopper Beacons Geohopper Beacons We just released Geohopper Beacons, a new bundle of beacon goodness available on the Twocanoes Store and the Amazon Store. Geohopper Beacons bring a whole new level of automatic notifications to your life. First, install a Geohopper Beacon in your home, office, or even your car. Then, set…
Twocanoes Labs announces the release of Geohopper Beacon, a location-based messaging beacon for the iPhone. Geohopper Beacon includes iBeacon-compatible hardware, power adapter and iOS app. Geohopper Beacons can be placed in the home, garage and office to automatically notify loved ones when arriving or leaving.
