Sentence examples for beacon could be from inspiring English sources

To determine how many times a beacon could be requested within a single trial, we conducted a pilot study (described next).

Estimote had previously offered proximity-gate functionality, meaning that a beacon could be made aware of your device once it was within range, and start some behavior accordingly, with varied proximity distances available depending on a developer's needs.

"We want to tell the Sellafield story, past, present and future; and the Beacon could be the best way for us to do that, while at the same time working with Copeland [council] and enabling them to continue to provide what is a fantastic visitor attraction.

Thus, the beacon could be used to simply guide locomotion through an intersection if it were still on-screen during the intersection entrance; this process can occur without any internal representation of the environment, simply moving toward the visible beacon (Montello, 2001).

A beacon could be attached to the platform 2.5 cm from its edge.

The best focus of the beacon could be found in either of two ways: subjectively by translating the beacon while observing the sharpness change of the wavefront spots, or objectively by using an automated metric to find the sharpest spots.

Beacons could be used to keep track of staff efficiency.

"Acoustic transmitting beacons could be implemented in, say, a plane's black box," Adib says.

Back in 2010, the astronomer Jill Tarter and colleagues argued that alien radio beacons could be obvious and common in our galaxy but that astronomers would not know because their searches have been incomplete.

Sonic Notify beacons could be embedded in lanyards, he says, so when you're at a business convention, you'd see the Twitter profiles of other attendees as you pass them.

After the 5 s elapsed, the beacon disappeared; there was no minimum request interval, so beacons could be requested immediately after one another.