While Google didn’t make any major announcements at its Ubiquity IoT Developer Summit this week, the search engine giant did highlight its intention to further the development of open source IoT applications – where its open version of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons took center stage. Google has invested substantially into research and development of outdoor geolocation for over ten years now, with the aim of building application program interfaces (APIs) that assist developers using GPS, WiFi, and cell towers to build apps for implementations such as navigation. Eddystone is Google’s very own beacon platform, which has a rather notable advantage over other beacon environments in that Eddystone can broadcast messages to smartphones through the Google Chrome browser without the…