Cisco Systems, Inc.
Event-driven policy based management of wireless beacon and tag devices

Abstract:

A method includes generating, at a server, an event policy for controlling one or more wireless beacon devices in a network; detecting an event in the network; determining whether the event matches the event policy; when the event matches the event policy, generating programming information for configuring the one or more wireless beacon devices; and forwarding the programming information via one or more wireless access points to the one or more wireless beacon devices for configuring the one or more wireless beacon devices based on the programming information.