Bluetooth beacons are a powerful tool for delivering location-based experiences. In this blog, we will cover the basics about beacons, permissions requesting, and common use cases.

Check out the latest updates from May: Automatic geofence polygon detection, a new integration with Attentive, and event querying improvements.

Explore the differences between building and buying geofencing and location infrastructure to help determine which is right for your business.

Check out the latest updates from April: new event querying and visualizations, remote SDK configuration, and address support in import.

Radar's CEO and Co-Founder, Nick Patrick, joined partners at Attentive and Bounteous+Hathway for an interactive webinar to discuss a range of topics from cultivating an audience of customers that opt-in to executing on an omnichannel strategy.

These enhancements make Radar the easiest way to remotely control the configuration of the Radar SDK.

Radar is now integrated with Amazon S3 to make getting insights from location data even easier for data scientists and analysts.

Ryan Gates, Radar's VP of Sales was recently interviewed on VentureFizz. Watch the video to learn more about Radar, our sales team, and the interview process.

Check out the latest updates from March: refreshed import experiences, new views and visuals for your Radar locations data, and integrate with Amazon Web Services S3.

Building an app of which location is a core component is complicated as well. You have a lot to think about: user experience, a permissioning flow, and the value that location access will bring your users.

During MURTEC, we heard from marketing, technology, and operations professionals about new developments in the space and how location data can help restaurant brands increase customer satisfaction and engagement, operational efficiencies, and revenue.

Our CEO and Co-Founder Nick Patrick was featured on the VentureFizz CxO briefing to chat with VentureFizz’s founder Keith Cline about Radar’s privacy-first geofencing platform, the company’s history, and new growth opportunities for 2022 and beyond.

We recently released a video with Amplitude exploring some of the ways that retail and restaurant brands can drive customer retention and revenue by investing in improving the customer experience.

The past two years have dramatically changed the way that all brands, across industries, leverage app-based experiences to engage with their customers. Now more than ever, it's critical for companies to meet their customers wherever they are.

By combining strengths to create a turnkey integration for order firing, Radar and Olo equip restaurant teams with industry-leading tools to drive remarkable experiences, customer loyalty, and revenue.

We've raised a $55 million Series C led by Insight Partners to build location infrastructure for every product and service.

Our vision is location infrastructure for every product and service, and a big vision means making big bets. Today, we're transitioning from radar.io to radar.com.

Our CEO Nick Patrick recently sat down with experts in the restaurant industry to discuss how the drive-thru and off-premise dining has paved the way for the restaurant of the future.

With the right tools and right approach, travel and hospitality brands can provide relevant and valuable customer experiences at every step of a customer’s trip.

Travel companies can build next-level guest experiences through their app with location technologies such as geofencing and beacons.

These enhancements make Radar the fastest way for retail, restaurant, and grocery brands to launch and measure the impact of best-in-class location-enabled pickup experiences.

In this recipe, we’ll show you how you can build an order-ahead experience on iOS using Radar, Segment, and Twilio.

We've launched a redesigned dashboard, docs, and location simulator that make integrating and testing geofencing simpler than ever.

After teaming up with Mobiquity to conduct a consumer behavior study in April, we hosted a webinar to share how convenience stores can meet consumer experience by leveraging digital technology.

A lot is up in the air on travel day, but airlines and related providers can best serve travelers with location-based mobile experiences. Geofencing can help alleviate friction in the traveler experience to increase revenue and retention.

We teamed up with Yext and OpenTable to share strategies to capture the post-COVID surge in demand for in-person experiences.

Here are the top ways hotels can use geofencing to power exceptional experiences that keep guests coming back and spending more.

Watch Radar's keynote session from Brand Growth Summit 2021: As consumers move through the physical world again post-COVID, winning brands will exceed new consumer expectations by seamlessly bridging the digital and physical.

How Radar implemented custom-partitioning for AWS Kinesis using Athena

Geofencing holds a great deal of promise for grocery chains to create customer loyalty and in-store engagement, as well as streamline their own operations.

It’s never been more important for entertainment brands to connect with their customers in real time and surface features that make them feel more comfortable on-premise, and location-context is what makes these experiences possible.

Radar’s Geofencing and Geo APIs make it easy for the Drybar® brand to engage clients with the right message at the right time, resulting in a nearly 3x increase in appointment bookings.

In this webinar, learn how Radar’s location solutions and Airship’s customer engagement platform work together to power a seamless BOPIS experience.

We teamed up with our friends at Taplytics to bring you a masterclass in shopping personalization out-of-store, on the way, and in-store.

Using Radar, Fiesta is able to address the operational challenges of curbside pickup to minimize wait times and drive repeat orders.

Along with joining APN (AWS Partner Network), we launched a new integration with Amazon Pinpoint. Enterprise customers can use the Pinpoint integration to send location-triggered and location-targeted messages to increase engagement and conversion.

Starting on March 29, 2021, apps submitted to the Google Play Store must receive approval to access location in the background. Learn tips and best practices for getting approved.

In this post, we share a ten-point location data privacy checklist to help you collect location data and build location-based experiences in the right way.

Beacons are like hardware-enabled micro-geofences that complement your existing geofence implementation. With support for beacons, Radar makes it simple to range, monitor, and build experiences with beacons for sub-meter accuracy, even indoors.

Adding location awareness to your app can activate in-store features that improve the shopping experience, drive engagement, and increase conversions.

Radar's flexible Geofencing solutions allow T-Mobile Tuesdays to customize offers by region, increasing offer relevancy and customer happiness.

In this five-round showdown, we evaluate how home improvement competitors Home Depot and Lowe's rolled out curbside pickup in a hurry at all their locations.

RetailMeNot uses Radar's Places, Search API, and growth stack integrations to surface contextual messages and content at the right place and time, driving a 19% uplift in visits.

We've sampled nine of the nation's largest restaurant chains to find out what ingredients make a Michelin-Star curbside experience.

With Radar's new Olo integration, you can start and stop trips for customer arrival tracking when orders are placed, fired, cancelled, or closed in Olo.

With personalization and relevance as the cornerstone of a winning loyalty program, we’ve put together a framework to help QSRs and retailers evaluate their technology strategy.

American Eagle wanted to make the shopping experience even more convenient this holiday season. Radar was able to provide American Eagle a solution with everything they needed in one platform.

Buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) orders now make up around 40% of total retail orders. Location can help the end-to-end experience for retailers and their customers by communicating arrival information to both parties.

We’re open-sourcing our api-diff tool to help developers confidently iterate on their own search and ranking APIs.

QR codes are cool again because they're a lightweight, contactless way to unlock a digital experience tied to a physical location. But many large retailers and QSRs are turning to another, more powerful technology: geofencing.

Curbside 1.0 is falling short of its promise to meet consumer expectations for convenient pick-up experiences. This winter, the spotlight will shine on the QSRs and retailers who have the right infrastructure in place for live tracking with Curbside 2.0.

2020 has been a year of massive change. Location, and how we interact with the physical world, is more important than ever. To focus Radar and our customers on the massive opportunity in front of us, we've refreshed our mission and vision.

Providing our employees with a fulfilling and inclusive place to work is a top priority at Radar, and we're proud to be named one of Crain's 100 Best Places to Work in NYC for 2020.

We're excited to welcome Charlene Lee as Director of Product and David Blackman as Director of Engineering.

We’re bringing back the best in the business for round 2 of Mobile On Air, with two days of networking and programming. Our conference theme: the new customer journey.

Our Solution Partner Program recognizes best-in-class agencies and consultancies that leverage Radar to build amazing location-aware experiences for their clients.

When you connect Radar and Branch, Radar will begin sending location events to Branch, enabling you to attribute offline actions to online campaigns.

Slide uses geo APIs and geofencing from Radar to drive store visits, engagement, and revenue through personalized location-based experiences in its new instant payments app.

When you connect Radar and OneSignal, Radar will begin appending location data to a user's OneSignal profile, allowing you to action on the user's location within your messaging strategy.

Cars.com stores and maintains geodata for thousands of Cars.com dealership partners with Radar geofences. Cars.com uses Radar to power attribution reporting for its partners and contextual experiences for its mobile app users.

iOS 14 allows users to share only their approximate location with apps rather than their precise location. In this post, we explain the changes and how to prepare.

Last Mile enables you to accurately predict when a customer will arrive for a digital order. With the included in-store dashboard, employees can seamlessly view and sequence orders based on actual customer arrival time.

Traveloka uses Radar to drive a 300% increase in engagement by delivering location-based customer experiences at the right time.

The severity of COVID-19 has varied widely across countries, states, and cities. Learn how Radar can help reactivate and engage users based on region.

Over the last few months, we’ve seen aspiring engineers and student hackers from across the world use Radar to build projects that help society and improve lives.

The new APIs are free up to 100,000 API requests per month and $0.50 per 1,000 API calls thereafter.

In a time of social distancing, QSRs and retailers are switching from in-store transactions to curbside pickup, BOPIS (buy-online-pickup-in-store), and delivery. Learn how Radar can help you power these experiences.

Location tracking involves tradeoffs between accuracy, frequency, and battery efficiency. Learn how Radar SDK v3 can help you choose the right balance for your use case.

We've raised a $20 million Series B round led by Accel to build developer-friendly, privacy-first location data infrastructure. We're also introducing new building blocks for location-aware apps.

We're open-sourcing our SDK, introducing new tracking options and tools for data minimization.

We're launching new building blocks for location-aware apps: geocoding, search, and routing APIs.

Radar and nine other independent software companies united to declare that CRM systems are no longer enough for the digital era.

Learn how to use Radar to add location tracking and geofencing to your student hackathon projects.

With Radar, Ibotta is able to send timely push notifications based on user location, increasing open rates by 30% and directly impacting engagement, conversions, and revenue.

You can now build user segments like "frequent travelers" or "frequent Starbucks visitors" directly in Radar.

Startups less than 2 years old, with less than $5M in funding, or with fewer than 20 employees can apply to get 1 year of Radar for free.

Our CEO sits down with the MapScaping podcast to talk location context, creating great app experiences, and the future of mobile.

We’re open-sourcing our Node.js TypeScript bindings for Google’s S2 library to bring the power of S2 to the Node.js developer ecosystem.

iOS 13 and Android 10 introduce changes to location permissions. In this post, we explain how to prepare for the changes.

APIs are the next big SaaS wave, and we're thrilled to be recognized as a Rising Star by our partners at Accel

Our best practices when prompting for location services, plus examples from 8 apps that do it well.

The integration lets customers stream Radar events to Lytics to power location-based user profiles and segmentation.

Regions detects a user's country, state, DMA, and postal code, unlocking new location-based app experiences.

Android Q and iOS 13 introduce new location permissions. In this post, we explain the changes, as well as best practices for building with location on iOS 13, Android Q, and beyond.

To continue our rapid growth, we're thrilled to announce that we've raised an $8 million Series A round led by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from Accel, Heavybit, Scott Belsky, and Ashley Smith.

Add location context to your analytics by sending Radar events and user state to Amplitude.

Learn how leading entertainment & sports apps use Radar to build contextual experiences, delight users, and increase engagement.

Learn how industry-leading travel & transportation apps use Radar to build contextual experiences, delight users, and increase engagement.

Learn how leading food & dining apps use Radar to build contextual experiences, delight users, and increase engagement.

Learn how leading shopping & retail apps use Radar to build contextual experiences, delight users, and increase engagement.

Learn how leading apps use Radar to build contextual experiences, delight users, and increase engagement.

We're excited to introduce all-new Radar Toolkit sample apps for iOS and Android. The new apps allow you to see your user state and event history in the foreground.

The dashboard geofence editor is now more powerful, allowing you to draw polygon geofences, set custom geofence metadata, and edit existing geofences.

We take privacy very seriously. Read about the data we collect, how we collect it, and how we use it.

The integration lets customers trigger location-based workflows and create location-based user segments in Iterable.

Radar SDK v2 is redesigned under the hood to maximize reliability, efficiency, and reponsiveness.

Enterprise customers with multiple apps can now seamlessly switch between projects with a single login.

Digital marketers have always aimed to deliver the right message to the right customers at the right time. But in recent years, the bar has been raised.

Slice and dice Radar event data to understand how users behave in the real world, create location-based audiences, and more.

The integration lets customers trigger location-based campaigns and create location-based user segments in Leanplum.

Send Radar events and user state to Firebase Cloud Functions to trigger push notifications and more.

Add location context to your analytics by sending Radar events and user state to Mixpanel.

Radar is GDPR-compliant, offers the tools and agreements you need to be GDPR-compliant, and welcomes the GDPR as an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to privacy and security.

The new Radar JavaScript SDK brings the power of location context to the web, including geofencing, home and work detection, and place detection.

The integration lets customers sync locations from Brandify to geofences in Radar.

Automatically sync geofences to Radar nightly from a private AWS S3 bucket.

TouchTunes uses Radar to send personalized messages to its mobile users in an additional 10,000 venues.

Learn how Via's growth, operations, product, and engineering teams use Radar in this video.

The integration lets customers trigger location-based push notifications in Urban Airship.

Learn how Raise's product, engineering, marketing, and data science teams use Radar in this video.

Tim will lead the way as we aggressively scale our tech stack and engineering team.

Automatically sync geofences to Radar nightly from any source.

Radar is a location platform for mobile apps. But what is a location platform, and how should you choose one?

We're thrilled to announce that we've raised a $2 million seed round led by Accel.

Now it's easier than ever to monitor the chains and categories that matter to your app.

The integration lets customers sync locations from Yext to geofences in Radar with just a few clicks.

Radar helps developers move faster, and we love MongoDB because it helps us move faster, too.

To show how simple it is to use Radar + Segment, we built an app that posts to Slack when employees enter or exit the office.

Radar SDK v1.2 is now available to all developers.

iOS 11 and Android O, still in developer preview, introduce new background location restrictions.

With this server-to-server integration, mParticle customers can forward Radar Geofences, Insights, and Places events to mParticle.

Radar can now tell you when a user visits a place, chain, or category even if you haven't set up a geofence for that place.

Via used Radar to run tests that increased booking conversion by 25%.

Two months ago, we launched Radar. We've been thrilled by the response so far, and we wanted to share our progress with you.

Using the millions of locations that we process per day, Radar can learn a user's approximate home and office locations and tell you if a user is currently at home, at work, or traveling.

We're excited to introduce a React Native module for Radar with support for iOS and Android.

This is the tutorial I wish I had as an iOS developer learning Android location services.

We're ten years into the smartphone era, but building products and services with location is still too hard. We're building Radar to change this.

Geofencing can increase user engagement, not only by pushing contextual information to users in the background, but also by pulling contextual information for users in the foreground, no tapping or searching required.