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A Semantic Beacon #specification for discovering environments and providing location-based context.

Using #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #OpenHPS
We have some interesting methods to scan for SemBeacons that will facilitate indoor positioning systems on iOS (which limits iBeacon scanning to hardcoded UUIDs). They will be documented soon!
Submitted my first iOS application for review (as an Android user). One second hand iPhone and a lot of cursing later...

Let's see how this goes @sembeacon.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reposted by SemBeacon
@maximvdw.be is currently presenting our work on discovering indoor environments and indoor positioning systems based on ‬POSO and @sembeacon.org at #FOSDEM. livestream: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

wise.vub.ac.be/topic/locati... @fosdem.bsky.social #positioningsystem #interoperability
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
After receiving feedback from the #IoT conference and investigating additional cases, we released version 1.1 of our SemBeacon spec, introducing some non-breaking changes to the ADV flags. These flags are used to determine if a beacon's advertised URI should be accessed
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Release v1.1 · SemBeacon/specification
Version 1.1 is a non-breaking version that adds an additional flag and aligns the specification with the SOSA ontology. An existing flag is renamed to be broader and still covers the meaning of the...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM