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加快环境动力的发展，基于信标的解决方案
信标技术提供了引人入胜的机会，在不同的细分市场，包括零售，交通和酒店业的辅助应用。由于公司急于提供信标为基础的解决方案，以快速移动的市场，信标设计师面临着越来越多的需求，这些小无线设备的交付速度更快，更大的期望，延长，免维护操作。通过结合无线处理器与专门的能量采集集成电路，工程师可以快速创建信标设计能够运行多年，无需更换电池。
信标正在成为一个越来越重要的元素，战略旨在提供基于位置的援助个人-帮助引导乘客通过机场，客人到酒店客房，甚至棒球球迷更好的座位。在零售业，灯塔技术被视为一个强大的催化剂，以帮助影响购物者选择在商店地板上的产品（图1）
Figure 1： Small Bluetooth-based devices are rapidly gaining attenTIon for their ability to influence sales in retail and offer locaTIon-based services across diverse market segments. （Courtesy of Nordic Semiconductor）
In fact， market analyst BI Intelligence forecasts that beacons already directly influenced over $4 billion in US retail sales in 2015 and will influence ten TImes that amount in 2016 alone. Another analyst firm ABI predicts that by 2018， over 800 million smartphones will be relying on beacons for indoor locaTIon， achieving the same level of usage in smartphone apps as GPS provides today. Indeed， with its ability to leverage an installed base of 7.4 billion smartphone users worldwide， beacon technology provides the key enabler for a growing array of lucrative applications.
