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I would like to send a location based push notification to all devices that enter a range of some kind of IOT device.

for example I would have a device which sends push notifications to any phone that enters range of the device. Similar to location based push notifications.

How could you do this? Is it possible?

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This is exactly what BLE beacon technology does.

It requires an app* on the device to tell the phone to listen for the broadcasts and then act accordingly when it receives one.

Beacons have a normal range of approximately 10m

* An app is required because otherwise this would be a truly horrific way to force advertising on people. Before Google gave up on the idea (Eddystone Beacons) Android had a reasonably nice compromise where the beacons would push a URL pointing to a website that would appear in the notification area (without out any noise or vibration).

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