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Beacons Guide Students At College Campus
- IoT Journal, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:37 PM
The University of Oklahoma (OU) has install a network of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons to help students navigate their way around the campus library, as well as exhibits of its Galileo books and manuscripts, located at seven locations within four buildings around the campus. The solution, which employs beacon-based technology provided by Aruba Networks (aHewlett Packard Enterprise company), is designed to solve a problem that the large public university had been experiencing: helping new students from small towns learn their way around a large complex building, such as the seven-story Bizzell Memorial Library.
